Reference Books
List of reference books in Cornish.
Key to forms of Cornish
used:
SWF Standard Written Form
KK Kernewek Kemmyn
UC Unified Cornish
UCR Unified Cornish Revised
MC Modern Cornish
KS Kernowek Standard
1000 Years of Cornish by Richard Gendall
Publisher: Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak
A look back at the last 1000 years of the Cornish language
(MC)
Available from Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak: tel. 01872
278501, e-mail [email protected]
Agan Yeth ed. Ken George
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Academic journal providing a forum for debating language issues
(KK)
No.1 ISBN 1 902917 53
7 Book £3.50
No.2 ISBN 1 902917 54
5 Book £3.50
No.3 ISBN 1 902917 55
3 Book £3.50
No.4 ISBN 1 902917 52
9 Book £3.50
Available from Tor Mark: tel. 01209 822101, e-mail [email protected]
A Background to Cornish: an occasional
series
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
An occasional series of reference books about the Cornish
language (KK)
1 Place-names in
Cornwall ISBN 1 902917 51 0
2 The Formation of Cornish Place-names ISBN
0 907064 63 9
3 A Very Brief History of the Cornish
Language ISBN 0 907064 61 2
4 Dialect and the Cornish Language ISBN 0
907064 58 2
5 House-names in Cornish ISBN 0 907064 78
7
6 Road-names in Cornwall ISBN 0 907064 77
9
7 Place-names of St Germans & Deviock
ISBN 0 907064 66 3
8 The History of Cornish in St Stephen in
Brannel ISBN 0 907064 88 4
9 The Parishes of Cornwall ISBN 1 902917 48
0
10 The History of Cornish in Probus ISBN
978 1 902917 733
11 Place-names of Looe & Talland ISBN
978 1 902917 832
£1.75 each
Available from Tor Mark: tel. 01209 822101, e-mail [email protected]
Celtic Cornwall by Alan M. Kent
Publisher: Halsgrove
Exploring the sites associated with the Celts, both in ancient
and in more modern times, he provides the reader with a fascinating
insight into the landscape, life and traditions that have made
Cornwall and its people ‘different’.
ISBN 978 0 85704 078
7 Price: £24.99
Available from Halsgrove tel: 01823 653777, e-mail: [email protected], http://www.halsgrove.com/
A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place Names by
Craig Weatherhill
Publisher: Evertype
Concise handbook to the meaning of Cornish place names
(UC)
ISBN 978 1 904808 22
0 Book £8.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Cornish Names by Pol Hodge
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
About 1,000 Cornish forenames, traditional and modern
(KK)
ISBN 1 902917 23
5 Book £9.99
Available from Tor Mark: tel. 01209 822101, e-mail [email protected]
Cornish Names for Cornish Homes by Crysten
Fudge
Publisher: Dyllansow Truran
Ideas about how to name your house in Cornish
(UC)
Book £2.50
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Cornish Today by Nicholas Williams
Publisher: Evertype
An outline of suggested improvements to Unified Cornish
(UCR)
ISBN 10 1 904808 07
7 Book £13.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Cousin Jennie’s Cookbook by Pam Pascoe,
translated by Jan Edmondson
Publisher: Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek
Pam Pascoe’s Cookbook, first published in 1976 with 3
re-prints, remains a much-loved favourite in many Cornish
kitchens. It includes many Cornish recipes as well as some
from further afield. The first two sections, Soups and Fish
are now available again, printed bilingually in Cornish and
English, from Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek. (SFW)
Book:
£5.50 (£4.99 to members of Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek)
Available from [email protected]
Curnooack en Choy by Richard Gendall
Publisher: Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak
Guide to pronunciation plus cassettes (MC)
Available
from Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak: tel. 01872 278501, e-mail [email protected]
Drama Kernewek by Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher: MAGA
A resource and activity pack about Cornish medieval drama
(SWF+English)
ISBN
978-1-903798-85-0
£6.95
Available from 01872 323497 or
[email protected]
Edward Lhuyd 1660-1709: A Shropshire
Welshman
Publisher: Oswestry Civic Society
Reprint of the 35 page booklet about Edward Lhuyd, contemporary
scholar of Late Cornish
£4.50 (+ £1.10 p&p)
Available from Derek Williams 54, Whitefriars, Oswestry,
Shropshire, SY11 2LW
Field Names of West Penwith by P.A.S.
Pool
Publisher: Spyrys a Gernow
Insight into how fields were given Cornish names
(UC)
Book £6.50
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Form and Content in Revived Cornish by Michael
Everson, Craig Weatherhill, Ray Chubb, Bernard Deacon &
Nicholas Williams
Publisher: Evertype
Articles in criticism of Kernewek Kemmyn
ISBN 978 1
904808 10 7 Book
£12.50
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Gorseth Kernow/The Cornish Gorsedd: What it is and what
it does by Rod Lyon
Publisher: Gorsedh Kernow
History of the Cornish Gorsedh
ISBN 978 1 903668
047
Book £4.95
Available from Gorsedh Kernow Treasurer, David Lindo: Enys, 13b
Trevone Crescent, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5ED e-mail [email protected]
A Handbook of Cornish Surnames by G. Pawley
White
Publisher: Dyllansow Truran
A guide to Cornish surnames (UC)
ISBN1 85022 127 8
Book £3.99
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Henry and Katharine Jenner: A Celebration of Cornwall’s
Culture, Language and Identity, ed. Derek R.
Williams
Publisher: Francis Boutle
Collection of essays marking the centenary of the publication
of Jenner’s Handbook of the Cornish Language
ISBN 978 1 903427 19 4
Book £12.50
Available from Francis Boutle Publishers, tel. 020 8889 7744,
e-mail [email protected], or
visit the Francis Boutle website
Henry Jenner’s Handbook of the Cornish Language
edited by Michael Everson
Publisher: Evertype
A revised edition of Henry Jenner’s classic Handbook
ISBN
978 1 904808 37 4
Book £20.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
An Kas rag Kernewek Kemmyn: The Case for Kernewek
Kemmyn
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
The Cornish Language Boards’ submission to the Commission on a
Single Written Form to be used in education and public life
(KK)
ISBN 1 902917 68 5
Book £4.00
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
Kemysk Sen Perran by Brian Webb
Publisher: Dyllansow Truran
Information about Cornwall’s patron saint (UC)
ISBN 01907566448
Book £1.50
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Kernewek Kemmyn: Cornish for the 21st Century
by Ken George & Paul Dunbar
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Dr George’s response to criticism of Kernewek Kemmyn
(KK)
ISBN 0 907064 71
X Book £7.95
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
Kesva an Taves Kernewek ~ Derivas Blydhenyek
2009
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Report on the Kesva’s work in Education, Examination,
Publications, Research and the Media (KK)
ISBN 1 978 902917 91 7 Book £2.00
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
The MacKinnon Report
A survey of Cornish published in April 2000
Photocopy £7.95
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
Names for the Cornish
Publisher: Dyllansow Truran
300 Cornish names based on historical evidence (UC)
ISBN 1 85022 122 7
Book £2.99
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Notennow Kernewek by Ray Edwards
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Notes on word-usage in the mediaeval texts (KK)
2000 ISBN 1 902917 12
X No.4 £5.95
2001 ISBN 1 902917 21
9 No.5 £2.00
2002 ISBN 1 902917 29
4 No.6 £6.45
2003 (3 pages)
No.7 £1.00
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
Place Names in Cornwall and Scilly by Craig
Weatherhill
Publisher: Spyrys a Gernow
Book of Cornish place names and their meanings
(UC)
ISBN 1903035 25
2 Book £8.99
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
The Place Names of West Penwith by P.A.S.
Pool
Publisher: Spyrys a Gernow
Comprehensive study of place names in the west Penwith area
(UC)
Book £6.50
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
The Pronunciation of Cornish by Richard
Gendall
Publisher: Teer ha Tavas
A guide to the pronunciation of Modern Cornish
(MC)
Available from Teer ha Tavas, Tregrill Vean,
Menheniot, Liskeard PL14 3PL
Reversing Language Shift: the Case of Cornish
by Dr. Ute Wimmer
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Examination of the success of the revival of the Cornish
language using Joshua Fishman’s model
ISBN 978 1 902917 59 7 Book £24.00
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
Setting Cornwall on its Feet: Robert Morton Nance,
1873-1959, ed. Peter W. Thomas and Derek R. Williams
Publisher: Francis Boutle
Collection of essays celebrating the life and work of Robert
Morton Nance
ISBN 978 1 903427 34 7
Book £12.50
Available from Francis Boutle Publishers, tel. 020 8889 7744,
e-mail [email protected], or
visit the Francis Boutle website
The Story of the Cornish Language by Peter
Berresford Ellis
Publisher: Tor Mark Press
An abridged history of the Cornish language from its time
before the Saxon conquest until the period of its
revival
ISBN 0 85025 371 3
Book £2.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Strateji rag an Taves Kernewek
Publisher:
Cornwall County Council
The Cornish Language Strategy
ISBN 1 903798 22 1
Free
Available from MAGA: tel. 01872 323497, e-mail [email protected]
Survey of Cornwall 1602 by Richard Carew
Publisher: Tamar Books
Containing Carew’s comments on the Cornish language with
examples
ISBN 1 899383 73 5
Book £9.99
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, Jori
Ansell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected]
The Theatre of Cornwall – Space, Place and
Performance by Alan M. Kent
Publisher: Redcliffe Press/Westcliffe Books
Cornwall has one of the oldest theatrical cultures in the
world. Alan Kent analyses its turbulent history from antiquity to
the present day and shows that Cornwall’s Celticity is greatly
connected to ritual, community and landscape.
ISBN
978-1-904537-99-1 Book £29.95
Available from Redcliffe Press Ltd, 81g Pembroke Road, Bristol BS8
3EA, UK, tel: 0117 9737207, e-mail: [email protected]
Towards Authentic Cornish by Nicholas
Williams
Publisher: Evertype
A critique of Kernewek Kemmyn
ISBN 10 1 904808 09
3 Book £12.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
Writings on Traditional Cornish by Nicholas
Williams
Publisher: Evertype
A series of articles about revived Cornish
ISBN 10 1
904808 08 5 Book
£11.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected]
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