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Towards Authentic Cornish (Paperback)
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"Towards Authentic Cornish" is in the first place a rebuttal of the
defence of Kernowek Kemyn attempted by Paul Dunbar and Ken George
in "Kernewek Kemmyn: Cornish for the Twenty-First Century." In the
present work, Professor Williams demonstrates with examples from
the Cornish texts just how unconvincing is George's defence of
Kernowek Kemyn. The latter portions of the book offer a detailed
critique of George's "Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn" and of Wella
Brown's "Grammar of Modern Cornish." As companion volumes to
"Towards Authentic Cornish," two further works by Professor
Williams have been published: "Cornish Today" and "Writings on
Revived Cornish." Nicholas Williams was born in Essex. While still
at school he taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the
Cornish Gorsedd for proficiency in the Cornish language in Newquay
in 1962, taking the bardic name Golvan. He won first prize in the
Gorsedd verse competition in 1961, 1964, and 1965. He read
classics, English language, and Celtic in Oxford and was awarded a
PhD in Celtic in Queen's University, Belfast in 1972. He is
currently Associate Professor in the School of Irish, Celtic
Studies, Folklore and Linguistics in University College, Dublin. He
has written widely on the Celtic languages and literatures, in
particular Irish, Manx and Cornish. He published "Cornish Today" in
1995, "Clappya Kernowek" in 1997, "English-Cornish Dictionary" in
2000 (second edition 2006) and Testament Noweth in 2002. He won
first prize in the Gorsedd verse competitions of 1997, 1998, and
1999. With Graham Thomas he has produced an editio princeps of the
recently discovered Cornish play, "Bewnans Ke," which was published
by the University of Exeter Press in October 2006. Philip Payton,
Professor of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, has described
Nicholas Williams as "the foremost international authority" in the
Cornish language."
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