Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology

Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology
Author: Peter Schrijver
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1995
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789051838206
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The languages belonging to the British subgroup of Celtic, i.e. Welsh, Cornish and Breton, have been the subject of thorough research for over a century now. Yet the phonological history of the prehistoric stages of these languages and the details of their connection with the other Celtic and Indo-European languages still present numerous unsolved issues. This volume aims to tackle the most acute problems of the historical phonology of British Celtic. Also it provides an up-to-date reference guide to British historical phonology in general, as well as a study of a large body of etymologies relevant to the correct evaluation of the historical phonology. This volume is of interest for the Celtologist, the Indo-Europeanist and the general historical linguist.

Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology

Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology
Author: Schrijver
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2023-11-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9004653732
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The languages belonging to the British subgroup of Celtic, i.e. Welsh, Cornish and Breton, have been the subject of thorough research for over a century now. Yet the phonological history of the prehistoric stages of these languages and the details of their connection with the other Celtic and Indo-European languages still present numerous unsolved issues. This volume aims to tackle the most acute problems of the historical phonology of British Celtic. Also it provides an up-to-date reference guide to British historical phonology in general, as well as a study of a large body of etymologies relevant to the correct evaluation of the historical phonology. This volume is of interest for the Celtologist, the Indo-Europeanist and the general historical linguist.

The Subjunctive in Celtic

The Subjunctive in Celtic
Author: Mark Darling
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:
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The Celtic Languages

The Celtic Languages
Author: Martin J. Ball
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 113685472X
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This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Organized for ease of reference, The Celtic Languages is arranged in four parts. The first, Historical Aspects, covers the origin and history of the Celtic languages, their spread and retreat, present-day distribution and a sketch of the extant and recently extant languages. Parts II and III describe the structural detail of each language, including phonology, mutation, morphology, syntax, dialectology and lexis. The final part provides wide-ranging sociolinguistic detail, such as areas of usage (in government, church, media, education, business), maintenance (institutional support offered), and prospects for survival (examination of demographic changes and how they affect these languages). Special Features: * Presents the first modern, comprehensive linguistic description of this important language family * Provides a full discussion of the likely progress of Irish, Welsh and Breton * Includes the most recent research on newly discovered Continental Celtic inscriptions

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain
Author: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2003-03-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781405109031
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This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets. First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets. Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions. Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions.

Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics
Author: Jared Klein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110523876
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This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic

The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic
Author: Nicholas Zair
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004233091
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In The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, Nicholas Zair for the first time collects and assesses all the words from the Celtic languages which contained a laryngeal, and identifies the regular results of the laryngeals in each phonetic environment. This allows him to formulate previously unrecognised sound changes affecting Proto-Celtic, and assess the competing explanations for other developments. This work has far-reaching consequences for the understanding of the historical phonology and morphology of the Celtic languages, and for etymological work involving the Celtic language, along with implications for Indo-European sound laws and the Indo-European syllable. A major conclusion is that the laryngeals cannot be used to argue for an Italo-Celtic language family.

The Celtic Languages in Contact

The Celtic Languages in Contact
Author: Hildegard L. C. Tristram
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2007
Genre: Celtic languages
ISBN: 3940793078
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Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages

Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages
Author: Peter Schrijver
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134254482
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History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period. Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a 'foreign accent' that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.