Reference Books List of reference books in Cornish. Key to forms of Cornishused:
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. 01872278501, 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 537 Book £3.50
No.2 ISBN 1 902917 545 Book £3.50
No.3 ISBN 1 902917 553 Book £3.50
No.4 ISBN 1 902917 529 Book £3.50
Available from Tor Mark: tel. 01209 822101, e-mail [email protected] A Background to Cornish: an occasionalseries
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
An occasional series of reference books about the Cornishlanguage (KK)
1 Place-names inCornwall ISBN 1 902917 51 0
2 The Formation of Cornish Place-names ISBN0 907064 63 9
3 A Very Brief History of the CornishLanguage ISBN 0 907064 61 2
4 Dialect and the Cornish Language ISBN 0907064 58 2
5 House-names in Cornish ISBN 0 907064 787
6 Road-names in Cornwall ISBN 0 907064 779
7 Place-names of St Germans & Deviock ISBN 0 907064 66 3
8 The History of Cornish in St Stephen inBrannel ISBN 0 907064 88 4
9 The Parishes of Cornwall ISBN 1 902917 480
10 The History of Cornish in Probus ISBN978 1 902917 733
11 Place-names of Looe & Talland ISBN978 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 ancientand in more modern times, he provides the reader with a fascinatinginsight into the landscape, life and traditions that have madeCornwall and its people ‘different’.
ISBN 978 0 85704 0787 Price: £24.99
Available from Halsgrove tel: 01823 653777, e-mail: [email protected], http://www.halsgrove.com/ A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place Names byCraig Weatherhill
Publisher: Evertype
Concise handbook to the meaning of Cornish place names(UC)
ISBN 978 1 904808 220 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 235 Book £9.99
Available from Tor Mark: tel. 01209 822101, e-mail [email protected] Cornish Names for Cornish Homes by CrystenFudge
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 077 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 3re-prints, remains a much-loved favourite in many Cornishkitchens. It includes many Cornish recipes as well as somefrom further afield. The first two sections, Soups and Fishare now available again, printed bilingually in Cornish andEnglish, 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)
Availablefrom 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)
ISBN978-1-903798-85-0 £6.95
Available from 01872 323497 or
[email protected] Edward Lhuyd 1660-1709: A ShropshireWelshman
Publisher: Oswestry Civic Society
Reprint of the 35 page booklet about Edward Lhuyd, contemporaryscholar 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 MichaelEverson, Craig Weatherhill, Ray Chubb, Bernard Deacon &Nicholas Williams
Publisher: Evertype
Articles in criticism of Kernewek Kemmyn
ISBN 978 1904808 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 whatit does by Rod Lyon
Publisher: Gorsedh Kernow
History of the Cornish Gorsedh
ISBN 978 1 903668047 Book £4.95
Available from Gorsedh Kernow Treasurer, David Lindo: Enys, 13bTrevone Crescent, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5ED e-mail [email protected] A Handbook of Cornish Surnames by G. PawleyWhite
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’sCulture, Language and Identity, ed. Derek R.Williams
Publisher: Francis Boutle
Collection of essays marking the centenary of the publicationof 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], orvisit the Francis Boutle website Henry Jenner’s Handbook of the Cornish Languageedited by Michael Everson
Publisher: Evertype
A revised edition of Henry Jenner’s classic Handbook
ISBN978 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 KernewekKemmyn
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
The Cornish Language Boards’ submission to the Commission on aSingle 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, JoriAnsell:
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 Centuryby Ken George & Paul Dunbar
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Dr George’s response to criticism of Kernewek Kemmyn(KK)
ISBN 0 907064 71X Book £7.95
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, JoriAnsell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected] Kesva an Taves Kernewek ~ Derivas Blydhenyek2009
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, JoriAnsell:
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, JoriAnsell:
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 12X No.4 £5.95
2001 ISBN 1 902917 219 No.5 £2.00
2002 ISBN 1 902917 294 No.6 £6.45
2003 (3 pages) No.7 £1.00
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, JoriAnsell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected] Place Names in Cornwall and Scilly by CraigWeatherhill
Publisher: Spyrys a Gernow
Book of Cornish place names and their meanings(UC)
ISBN 1903035 252 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 RichardGendall
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 Cornishby Dr. Ute Wimmer
Publisher: Kesva an Taves Kernewek
Examination of the success of the revival of the Cornishlanguage using Joshua Fishman’s model
ISBN 978 1 902917 59 7 Book £24.00
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, JoriAnsell:
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 RobertMorton Nance
ISBN 978 1 903427 34 7 Book £12.50
Available from Francis Boutle Publishers, tel. 020 8889 7744,e-mail [email protected], orvisit the Francis Boutle website The Story of the Cornish Language by PeterBerresford Ellis
Publisher: Tor Mark Press
An abridged history of the Cornish language from its timebefore the Saxon conquest until the period of itsrevival
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 withexamples
ISBN 1 899383 73 5 Book £9.99
Available from Kesva an Taves Kernewek’s Publications Officer, JoriAnsell:
65 Churchtown, Gwinear, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5JL, e-mail [email protected] The Theatre of Cornwall – Space, Place andPerformance by Alan M. Kent
Publisher: Redcliffe Press/Westcliffe Books
Cornwall has one of the oldest theatrical cultures in theworld. Alan Kent analyses its turbulent history from antiquity tothe present day and shows that Cornwall’s Celticity is greatlyconnected to ritual, community and landscape.
ISBN978-1-904537-99-1 Book £29.95
Available from Redcliffe Press Ltd, 81g Pembroke Road, Bristol BS83EA, UK, tel: 0117 9737207, e-mail: [email protected] Towards Authentic Cornish by NicholasWilliams
Publisher: Evertype
A critique of Kernewek Kemmyn
ISBN 10 1 904808 093 Book £12.95
Available from Spyrys a Gernow: tel. 01209 842394, e-mail [email protected] Writings on Traditional Cornish by NicholasWilliams
Publisher: Evertype
A series of articles about revived Cornish
ISBN 10 1904808 08 5 Book£11.95
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