Essays about: "Scottish Gaelic"

Found 2 essays containing the words Scottish Gaelic.

1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
   Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

   Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

3. 2. Sanctuary : The Lifeworlds of Seaweeds in Loch Hourn

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Guadalupe Canale; [2023]
   Keywords : sea anthropology; environmental perception and experience; seaweeds; ethnophycology; multispecies ethnography; the Scottish Highlands;

   Abstract : As living beings, seaweeds exist at the periphery of people’s awareness, and not much is known about what they mean to people, and the relationships we can have with them. They are useful, versatile commodities, and multitask as foodstuffs for people and other beings, as sources of biofuel and medicinal compounds, and the list goes on... READ MORE