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Sims-Williams, Patrick, “The four types of Welsh yn”, Transactions of the Philological Society 113:3 (2015): 271–406.

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Article
“The four types of Welsh yn
Volume
113
Pages
271–406
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This paper discusses and categorises the various medieval and modern Welsh prepositions and particles yn and the initial mutations that follow them. It investigates possible manuscript variants such as Old Welsh int and it and Middle Welsh y, and examines variations in mutation. Historical explanations are suggested, including a new explanation of the absence of mutation in the productive yn + verbal noun construction, which is argued to have spread from the construction in which possessive pronouns between yn and the verbal nouns of intransitive stative verbs prevented yn from mutating the verbal nouns.

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Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2019