The Welsh Verbal Noun
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Asmu (0000-0002-3458-621X) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 43 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages10030043 |
| OpenAlex | W4407997743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The verbal noun in the modern, currently spoken p-Celtic language Welsh is of a different nature than any other word class known in Standard Average European Languages (SAEs), to which the Insular Celtic tongues do not belong. This subject has occasionally attracted attention. Welsh language grammars clearly identify a berfenw 'verb noun', which Thomas (1996, p. 28) calls a citation form with no specific person or time allocation. However, non-Welsh descriptions of the verbal noun tend to trigger confusion by allocating varied SAE terms to it, like 'verb noun infinitives' (Myhill, 1985), 'verbal noun infinitives' (Carnie & Guilfoyle, 2000, p. 10), 'infinitives' (Borsley et al., 2007, p. 70), and 'non-finite verb(al) forms' (Sackmann, 2022, p. 2), most of them belittling the prominent nominal functions of this word class. Coming from a historical perspective, Scherschel et al. (2018) call the Welsh verbal noun an 'event noun', which seems more appropriate, as is shown in this paper, in which a detailed analysis of the major features of this Welsh word class is carried out
Linguistics · Nominalization · Noun · Welsh · Computer Science · Historical Studies of British Isles · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Psychology · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |