Forthcoming: Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics

Andrew Carnie (ed), Diane Ohala (ed), Dee Hunter (ed), Samantha Prins (ed), Mike Hammond (ed), Luis A. Irizarry (ed)

Synopsis

This book showcases the latest research from the world’s leading experts on Celtic linguistics. The 15 chapters span a variety of linguistic subdisciplines as well as theoretical and methodological perspectives. Together, these articles highlight critical aspects of contemporary inquiry into the linguistic systems of Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and their ancestor languages. The volume is organized around four key sub-areas: (1) Syntax and Semantics, (2) Phonology and Phonetics, (3) Language Change, Historical Linguistics and Grammaticalization, and (4) Sociolinguistics and Language Documentation. The volume's papers offer detailed investigations of current theoretical issues in Celtic syntax, semantics, phonology, and phonetics, as well as of language policy and ideology, language weaponization, and diachronic and synchronic language change. These state-of-the-art contributions represent the impressive diversity of the field of Celtic linguistics and emphasize the wide body of work being conducted in the language communities of the six Celtic nations.

Chapters

  • Part I: Syntax and semantics
  • Polarity sensitivity and fragments in Irish
    James McCloskey
  • When linearization triggers embedded V2
    Evidence from Breton
    Melanie Jouitteau
  • Deriving VSO in Scottish Gaelic
    Gillian Catriona Ramchand
  • Reassessing Oehrle effects
    Evidence from Scottish Gaelic
    Gary Thoms
  • Some complexities and idiosyncrasies of Welsh consonantal mutation
    Maggie Tallerman
  • Part II: Phonology and phonetics
  • Phonology of the Celtic languages
    Mike Hammond
  • Hebrides English in the 1980s and now
    Ian Clayton, Cynthia Shuken
  • Gestural timing and contrast
    An Irish case study
    Ryan Bennett, Jaye Padgett, Grant McGuire, Máire Ní Chiosáin, Jennifer Bellik
  • Part III: Language change, historical linguistics, and grammaticalization
  • Comparing the syntactic complexity of Gaeltacht and urban Irish-Language broadcasters
    Brian Ó Broin
  • Bunadas
    A network database of cognate words, with emphasis on Celtic
    Caoimhín P. Ó Donnaíle
  • Laryngeal contrast in the Celtic languages
    Variation, typology, and history
    Pavel Iosad
  • Syntactic reconstruction in Celtic
    Marieke Meelen
  • Part IV: Sociolinguistics and language revitalization
  • Guth Thormoid
    The “Island Voice” of Norman Maclean
    Gordon Wells
  • White supremacists’ weaponization of Celtic heritage languages and language revitalization
    John Powell
  • France’s war on Breton diacritics
    An incomprehensible obstinacy
    Stefan Moal

Biographies

Andrew Carnie, University of Arizona

Andrew Carnie is Professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He specializes in theoretical syntax, morphology and phonology with a particular interest in constituent structures, dependencies, case and copular constructions. He works mainly with Scottish Gaelic and Modern Irish.

Diane Ohala, University of Arizona

Diane Ohala is an Associate Professor of Practice in linguistics at the University of Arizona. She specializes in phonology and developmental psycholinguistics, specifically the acquisition of syllable structure and related phenomena in monolingual English-speaking children. She also works with Welsh-English bilingual children on occasion.

Dee Hunter, University of Arizona

Dee Hunter is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at the University of Arizona. They specialize in language revitalization and reclamation as well as language planning and teaching. They have worked with Cornish and Scottish Gaelic in recent years.

Samantha Prins, University of Arizona

Samantha Prins is a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. She specializes in language revitalization, morphology, and syntax with a particular interest in nominal inflection and the intersections of linguistic theory and community language work.

Mike Hammond, University of Arizona

Mike Hammond is Professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He specializes in phonology, poetic meter, and computational linguistics. He works mainly with Welsh and English, and occasionally Scottish Gaelic.

Luis A. Irizarry, University of Arizona

Luis A. Irizarry is Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He specializes in theoretical syntax and computational linguistics with particular interest dependency grammar, copular constructions and clefts. He works mainly with Manx and Scottish Gaelic.

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Published

December 12, 2024
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Carnie, Andrew, Ohala, Diane, Hunter, Dee, Prins, Samantha, Hammond, Mike & Irizarry, Luis A. (eds.). Forthcoming. Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics. ( Current Issues in Celtic Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press.

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