Roma, Elisa

Dr. Elisa Roma holds her PhD. from the University of Pavia. She is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pavia, where she teaches both general and Celtic linguistics.

Il Medioirlandese / Middle Irish: A Translation Into Italian of the Gaelic Text an Mheán-Ghaeilge by Liam Breatnach

2013 0-7734-4472-6
The only book of its kind that offers a detailed account of the orthography, phonology and morphology of Middle Irish available in print. This is an important research tool for linguists and professors and graduate students working in the language arts. The book covers key issues of initial mutations, and gives a detailed account of inflection and word formation of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, adverbs, verbs and prepositions. Attested forms are commented upon from a historical point of view, and the dynamics of linguistic conversation and innovation, the mechanism of analogy, contrasting the Middle Irish forms with the corresponding Old Irish ones with an eye on the evolution of the language.

Linguistic and Philological Studies in Early Irish

2014 0-7734-0055-9
This is a multi-authored volume which gathers essays devoted to Early Irish originally presented at the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies, held in Maynooth, August 1-5, 2011. The topics covered, either from a synchronic or a diachronic perspective, range from phonetics and phonology to morphology and syntax with some semantics.