TO THE READER. THE rapid sale of the First Edition of this Grammar has encouraged the Author to venture on issuing a Second and Enlarged Edition of the Work. During the interval that has elapsed, he has taken advantage of many opportunities of adding, not merely to the bulk of the volume, but also, he trusts, to the utility of its contents. Many subjects slightly touched on in the first edition are here discussed more in detail; and some entirely overlooked, or omitted for want of room, are brought under notice. This has been especially the case with reference to the Elementary Sounds of the Language, a subject on which little thought has been expended by Welsh grammarians in general. He hopes the additional information embodied in the present volume will merit to some extent the flattering reception given to the previous edition. August, 1853. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE Grammar now before the reader owes its publication to a feeling on the part of the Author that no sufficiently simple work on the subject on which it treats had ever appeared in print. To lay claim to great originality in the production of a Welsh Grammar would be idle, so many writers having canvassed the subject, while the principles of the language remain unaltered. Equally impossible would it be to acknowledge the various sources whence the author has derived his information; notes on the subject, having been collected by him during a period of some years, without any intention of their being published, and principles elicited by examination of the structure of the language, which at last accumulated into a mass requiring method only to form into a book. The author trusts that the natural arrangement of the work, and a departure from some antiquated and fanciful theories, at variance with philology, will secure, what he has mainly aimed at, the utility of his production. |