James Fife

List of John Benjamins publications in which James Fife is involved.

Titles

Studies in Brythonic Word Order

Edited by James Fife and Erich Poppe

While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 83] 1991. x, 360 pp.

Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins

Edited by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland

This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 68] 1990. xxiv, 470 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

Fife, James 1991 Some constituent-order frequencies in classical Welsh prose Studies in Brythonic Word Order, Fife, James and Erich Poppe (eds.), pp. 251–274 | Article

Fife, James and Erich Poppe 1991 Introduction — Word order in Brythonic Studies in Brythonic Word Order, Fife, James and Erich Poppe (eds.), pp. vii–x | Miscellaneous

Fife, James and Gareth King 1991 Focus and the Welsh ‘Abnormal Sentence’: A cross-linguistic perspective Studies in Brythonic Word Order, Fife, James and Erich Poppe (eds.), pp. 81–154 | Article

Fife, James 1990 A visit to the Galapagos Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins, Ball, Martin J., James Fife, Erich Poppe and Jenny Rowland (eds.), pp. 77–88 | Article