Italo-Celtic origins and prehistoric development of the Irish language
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Italo-Celtic origins and prehistoric development of the Irish language
(Leiden studies in Indo-European / series edited by R.S.P. Beekes, A. Lubotsky, J.S.S. [sic] Weitenberg, 14)
Rodopi, 2007
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"LSIE 14"--Spine
Bibliography: p. [179]-194
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume offers a discussion of the phonological and morphological development of Old Irish and its Indo-European origins. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the verbal system. Special attention is devoted to the origin of absolute and relative verb forms, to the rise of the mutations, to the role of thematic and athematic inflexion types in the formation of present classes, preterits, subjunctives and futures, and to the development of deponents and passive forms. Other topics include infixed and suffixed pronouns, palatalization of consonants and labialization of vowels, and the role of Continental Celtic in the reconstruction of Proto-Celtic. The final chapter provides a detailed analysis of the Latin and other Italic data which are essential to a reconstruction of Proto-Italo-Celtic. The appendix contains a full reconstruction of the Old Irish verbal paradigms, which renders the subject more easily accessible to a wider audience. The book is of interest to Celticists, Latinists, Indo-Europeanists and other historical linguists.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Old Irish absolute and conjunct endings and questions of relative chronology [1978]
More evidence for Italo-Celtic [1980]
Phonemicization and rephonemicization of the Old Irish mutations [1981]
Old Irish subjunctives and futures and their Proto-Indo-European origins [1983]
Posttonic *w in Old Irish [1983]
The origin of the Slavic imperfect [1983]
Lachmann's law [1985]
Absolute and conjunct again [1993]
The alleged early apocope of *-i in Celtic [1995]
Thematic and athematic verb forms in Old Irish [1996]
Old Irish ol 'inquit' [1996]
On the relative chronology of Celtic sound changes [1997]
Lachmann's law again [1997]
Three notes on the Old Irish verb [1999]
Old Irish feda, gen. fedot 'Lord' and the 1st sg. absolute ending -a in subjunctives and futures [2002]
More on the Celtic verb [2006]
Italo-Celtic [2006]
Appendix: Old Irish verbal paradigms
References
Index
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