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Towards Authentic Cornish
A critique of Kernewek Kemmyn: Cornish for the Twenty-First Century of Paul Dunbar and Ken George, Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn by Ken George, and A Grammar of Modern Cornish by Wella Brown
Westport: Evertype, 2006.
£12.95.
ISBN-10 1-904808-09-3,
ISBN-13 978-1-904808-09-1
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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. Published on 2006-11-30.
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Writings on Revived Cornish
Westport: Evertype, 2006.
£11.95.
ISBN-10 1-904808-08-5,
ISBN-13 978-1-904808-08-4
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This book brings together in one convenient volume eight articles by Professor Nicholas Williams on the Cornish Revival. They range from his “A Problem in Cornish Phonology” (1990) in which he shows that the “phonemes” /dj/ and /tj/ of Kernowek Kemyn were unwarranted, to his review “‘A Modern and Scholarly Cornish-English Dictionary’: a Review of Ken George’s Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn” of 2001 in which he demonstrates how at least 370 entries in George’s dictionary are mistaken. Writings on Revived Cornish concludes with a short note on George’s inconsistent lexicographical practice with respect to geographical names, a discussion of the implications for the revived language of the recently-discovered play Bewnans Ke and the text of a lecture on Unified Cornish Revised given by Professor Williams in September 2006. Published on 2006-10-30.
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Cornish Today
Third edition
Westport: Evertype, 2006.
£13.95.
ISBN-10 1-904808-07-7,
ISBN-13 978-1-904808-07-7
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The publication of Cornish Today by Kernewek dre Lyther in 1995 was a landmark event in the Cornish Revival. In that book, Professor Williams offered the first professional analysis of the various systems of Cornish in use, and also outlined his suggested emendations for Unified Cornish. The present revised edition makes this most important work available to those who may have missed the earlier editions. Published on 2006-09-30.
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| Please address enquiries to the Cornish distributor, Pat Miller in Falmouth. Also available from CornwallBooks.com in Truro. |