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The Celtic inscriptions of Britain : phonology and chronology, c.400-1200 / Patrick Sims-Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sims-Williams, Patrick.
- Series:
- Publications of the Philological Society ; 37.
- Publications of the Philological Society ; 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inscriptions, Celtic--British Isles.
- Inscriptions, Celtic.
- Inscriptions, Celtic--France--Brittany.
- Ogham alphabet.
- France--Brittany.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.The stones are a major source for the history of the Celtic-speakers of post-Roman Britain and for the development and divergence of their languages, yet the dating of the 370 inscriptions remains uncertain. Now, through a new study of the phonological development of the Brittonic and Irish branches of Celtic, Patrick Sims-Williams places the chronology of the inscriptions on a surer footing.The book will be of interest to archaeologists, historians and art historians, as well as to philologists interested in the methods and problems of historical phonology and onomastics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1405109033
- OCLC:
- 51481917
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