Hello.  I have found a fascinating description of Cornish Grammar
in _The Ancient Cornish Drama_ by Edwin Norris.  It was first published in
1859 and was reissued in 1968 by Benjamin Blom, Inc.  Bronx, New York
10452.  It is in two volumes and records a 'miracle' play in Cornish called
the Ordinalia and is a set of three plays recording biblical themes such as
the creation of the world and the life of Jesus.  In the second volume is a
long "Ancient Cornish Vocabulary" which includes all the words from the
work and a long section titled "Sketch of Cornish Grammar" based on Norris'
observations translating the work.  I hope to post the vocabulary one of
these days, but for right now I'd like to share some notes on readings
from the "Sketch of Cornish Grammar" with you.
	The material for these notes occurs on p.228 volume 2 of the work:

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				ARTICLES

	The definite article is _an_ (en) for all numbers and genders:

an myghtern	the king
an venen	the woman
an porthow	the gates

	When the definite article is in connection with a preceding word
ending in a vowel, the article usually looses its own vowel, and the 'n'
is added to the preceeding word.  The 'n' is often seperated from that
word by an apostrophe.  The article isn't inflected and cases are made
by prepositions (except the genitive but more on that later):

en tas ha'n map ha'n spyrys	the Father and the Son and the Spirit
an mor ha'n tyryow		the sea and the lands
the'n tas			to the father
a'n nef				from the heaven
war an kunys			upon the wood
the'n dor			to the ground

	The indefinite article is _un_ and is invariable also.  It is also
quite rare according to Norris:

un map		a son
worth un venen	to a woman

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	I will continue to periodically post notes from Norris' work unless
something else comes up.  I hope you find my humble notes helpful and please
feel free to e-mail comments, questions, or suggestions to me!

                                             Anthony Velasquez
                                             Oregon State Univeristy
                                    (E-mail) velasqua@ucs.orst.edu

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