Till now work on Welsh within the framework of transformational grammar has been limited both in scale and in scope. It has been confined to a small number of articles and these have concentrated mainly on questions of phonology. This book is an attempt to rectify this situation, providing a full length study of Welsh within the transformational framework and concentrating on syntax. Owing to the dearth of previous work in this area this is bound to be an exploratory study, raising many questions for which no definite answers can be given. However, interesting explanations can be offered for much otherwise puzzling data which has caused difficulties within traditional and structuralist approaches, and it is felt that raising problems which have till now gone unnoticed is itself useful.

It is hoped that this book will be of interest to those who are working in the field of Welsh and the Celtic languages generally, as providing a new perspective on the language, offering new answers to some old questions and raising new questions instead. It is also hoped that the book will be of interest to those who are working in the field of transformational grammar, as providing an example of the approach being applied to a new family of languages. Any substantive work on linguistic universals must be based on such detailed studies as this for an increasing number of new languages.