Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. A History of Gaelic to 1800 -- 2. Language in Society: 1800 to the Modern Day -- 3. Gaelic Place-names -- 4. Language in Gaelic Literature -- 5. A' Ghàidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada -- 6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects -- 7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission, and -Shift -- 8. Language Planning -- 9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities -- 10. Gaelic Vocabulary -- 11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man's Broad Road -- 12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic -- 13. Gaelic Morphology -- 14. David Adger -- Index