ABSTRACT
The study of Welsh syntax was restricted until comparatively recently to traditional accounts of the type found in Morris-Jones (1931), Richards (1938), Williams (1959, 1980). The first major publication on modern linguistic approaches that used Welsh data was Watkins (1961): a survey of linguistics in general rather than of Welsh syntax. In the mid-1970s there appeared the first treatments of Welsh syntax utilizing a transformational-generative approach: Awbery (1976) and Jones and Thomas (1977); while the first of these deals with certain mutation triggers (via transformational rules), the second, unfortunately, treats the entire system as being outside its scope of syntax and semantics and so does not discuss it. More recently, we have seen work on Welsh within a GB framework, notably Sproat (1985), Tallerman (1987) and Sadler (1988) the last two of whom do discuss mutations to different degrees. Most recently, Rouveret (1990) has also addressed aspects of Welsh syntax within the GB framework, while Awbery (1990) brings a broadly theory-neutral approach to a study of dialect syntax that also involves consideration of mutation in various contexts.
