Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)

Rating:
Summary: Comprehensive and Easy to Read
Review: Once you've gotten through a basic course or a good book-and-tape set, you'll want a grammar. This one is excellent.

Every principle is illustrated with examples, making this book useful for personal study as well as for use as a reference. Principles such as sentence structure are demonstrated in English as well as Welsh. Where differences of usage exist between north and south Welsh, or literary and colloquial Welsh, they are identified.

The more unusual features of Welsh (mutation, the coexistence of decimal and vingesimal numbering systems, and the existence of both a singular/plural and a collective/unit distinction, for instance) are treated elegantly.

This book is very accessible and well-indexed, making it ideal for students.