William Lamb is Professor of Gaelic Ethnology and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Baltimore, Lamb spent over a decade living in a Gaelic-speaking community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

• List of Tables List of Figures A note on examples, paradigms and linguistic terminology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Gaelic spelling and pronunciation 3 Words and word classes 4 Basic syntax: phrases, clauses and grammatical relations 5 Common Nouns 6 Pronouns 7 Adjectives 8 Determiners 9 Word formation 10 Proper nouns 11 Prepositions 12 Numerals and numerical systems 13 The Gaelic verbal system 14 Semantic verbs 15 Conjunctions and verbal particles 16 The copula 17 Verbal noun cores and their arguments 18 Auxiliary verbs and aspectual marking 19 Impersonals and passives 20 Questions and tags 21 Clause combinations 22 Complement clauses 23 Relative Clauses 24 Modality 25 Adverbs and adverbials 26 Focussing 27 Formulaic Phrases Bibliography Corpora Dialect studies Gaelic dictionaries Gaelic grammars and guides General references Gaelic Index General Index Glossary of grammatical terms