The item you selected is unavailable, but we found something similar.

Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Henry Jenner Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language (Hardback) - Picture 1 of 1

Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language by Henry Jenner (Hardcover, 2010)

Be the first towrite a review.

Rarewaves Outlet (1136708)
98.2% positive Feedback

Price:

AU $64.59

Free postage

Estimated delivery Fri, 24 May - Wed, 5 Jun

Returns:

No returns, but backed by eBay Money Back GuaranteeeBay Money Back Guarantee.

Condition:

Brand new

Title: Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language. Author: Henry Jenner. Format: Hardback. Genre: Language & Reference. Language: English. Item Length: 140mm. Item Weight: 558g. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB.

About this product

Product Information

This new edition of Jenner's classic Handbook of the Cornish Language appears more than a century after the book's first publication. Now that the Cornish Revival has weathered many storms, it is well worth making Jenner's ground-breaking work available again, copies of the 1904 edition having become rare and expensive. The book is not a mere facsimile. It contains phonetic tran-scriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), to assist the modern reader in under-standing exactly which sounds Jenner was recommending. It also includes three articles he published between 1873 and 1877, near the begin-ning of his researches into Cornish, reproduced for comparison with the main text from 1904. The orthographic system which Jenner used in 1904 was the culmination of many years of work, but it is important to notice that Jenner was aware three decades earlier of Bell's Visible Speech , and of Ellis' Palaeotype and Glossic . Jenner's familiarity with these pre-cursors of the IPA is significant. It shows him to have had real phonetic training. It places his work in the context of modern linguistics. Jenner's achievement as a linguist was remarkable. Synthe-siz-ing the texts, the description in Lhuyd's Archaeologia Britannica (1707), Norris' Sketch of Cornish Grammar (1859), Williams' Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum (1865), and Jago's English-Cornish Dictionary (1882), Jenner sorted it all out: he devised a system which was practical enough to use to begin to revive the lan-guage. He uses an orthography that supports Late Cornish while retaining a connection to the orthographic forms of the Middle Cornish scribal tradition. Jenner's Cornish looks Cornish. His orthography provides a good, clear relationship between sound and spelling without diverging drastically from that of the traditional texts. He used diacritical marks for precision where necessary. His section on grammar is wide-ranging and largely reliable. Jenner appears to regard the differences between Middle and Late Cornish as being more apparent than real; his work is generally free of the unwarranted purism of some later Revivalists. Of particular interest is his belief that it was undesirable to try to reconstruct a foreign accent based on scientific affectation . He recognized that the contact between Cornish and English must have led to similarities in phonology, and held that the sound and intonation of the English spoken in Cornwall should have a proper and positive influence on the pronunciation of Revived Cornish.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Evertype
ISBN-13
9781904808374
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105273959

Product Key Features

Book Title
Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language
Author
Henry Jenner
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
322 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
558g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Henry Jenner
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

Best Selling in Books

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest (Paperback, 2020)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 6 product ratings
AU $21.98 New
AU $15.39 Used
The Concise 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene (Paperback, 2002)
4.5 out of 5 stars based on 21 product ratings
AU $21.51 New
---- Used
Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller by James Clear (Paperback, 2018)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 25 product ratings
AU $18.90 New
AU $8.95 Used
Become What You Are: Expanded Edition by Alan W. Watts (Paperback, 2003)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings
AU $32.51 New
---- Used
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Paperback, 2000)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 6 product ratings
AU $59.44 New
---- Used
First Day by Andrew Daddo (Paperback, 2014)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $10.00 New
AU $6.29 Used

Save on Books

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Books

The Orthodox Study Bible, Hardcover: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's Worl
AU $63.30
Trending at AU $65.12
NEW Bluey: My Mum is the Best By Bluey (Hardcover) Picture Book FREE Shipping
AU $11.95
Trending at AU $15.72
The 2023 Ninja Dual Zone Air Fryer Cookbook: 1000 Days Simple, Delicious & Low C
AU $18.48
Trending at AU $19.14
Lonely Planet Vietnam | Paperback Book | NEW AU FREE SHIPPING AU
AU $27.88
Trending at AU $28.29
The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners 2023: 2000 Days of Quick,
AU $18.83
Trending at AU $19.39
Animal Farm
AU $12.34
Trending at AU $13.51

Shop by category

Picture 1 of 1

Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language by Henry Jenner (Hardcover, 2010)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

Best Selling in Books

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest (Paperback, 2020)

The Concise 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene (Paperback, 2002)

Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller by James Clear (Paperback, 2018)

Become What You Are: Expanded Edition by Alan W. Watts (Paperback, 2003)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Paperback, 2000)

First Day by Andrew Daddo (Paperback, 2014)

Save on Books

The Orthodox Study Bible, Hardcover: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's Worl

NEW Bluey: My Mum is the Best By Bluey (Hardcover) Picture Book FREE Shipping

The 2023 Ninja Dual Zone Air Fryer Cookbook: 1000 Days Simple, Delicious & Low C

Lonely Planet Vietnam | Paperback Book | NEW AU FREE SHIPPING AU

The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners 2023: 2000 Days of Quick,

Animal Farm

You may also like

Henry James Fiction Hardcover Books

Fiction Hardcover Henry David Thoreau & Books

Henry James Fiction Hardcover Books in English

Henry James Non-Fiction Hardcover Books

Henry James History Non-Fiction Hardcover Books

Henry James Literary Criticism Non-Fiction Hardcover Books