New book: Italo-Celtic Origins and Prehistoric Development of the Iris

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Hot off the presses, from LinguistList. Might come in handy for some of you interested in Old Irish, which is often used in discussing Proto-Celtic.

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Title: Italo-Celtic Origins and Prehistoric Development of the Irish

Language

Series Title: Leiden Studies in Indo-European Vol. 14

 

Publication Year: 2007

Publisher: Rodopi

http://www.rodopi.nl/

 

 

Book URL: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=LEIDEN+14

 

 

Author: Frederik H .H. Kortlandt

 

Hardback: ISBN: 9789042021778 Pages: 215 Price: Europe EURO 46.00

 

 

Abstract:

 

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.

 

 

 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

 

Subject Language(s): Old Irish (sga)

 

 

Written In: English (eng)

 

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