Italo-Celtic origins and prehistoric development of the Irish language.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kortlandt, Frederik.

Series:

Leiden Studies in Indo-European 14.

Leiden Studies in Indo-European ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish language--Etymology.

Irish language.

Irish language--To 1100--Etymology.

Irish language--Foreign elements--Italian.

Celtic languages--Etymology.

Celtic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

THE OLD IRISH ABSOLUTE AND CONJUNCT ENDINGS AND QUESTIONS OF RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY

MORE EVIDENCE FOR ITALO-CELTIC

PHONEMICIZATION AND REPHONEMICIZATION OF THE OLD IRISH MUTATIONS

OLD IRISH SUBJUNCTIVES AND FUTURES AND THEIR PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN ORIGINS

POSTTONIC *w IN OLD IRISH

THE ORIGIN OF THE SLAVIC IMPERFECT

LACHMANN’S LAW

ABSOLUTE AND CONJUNCT AGAIN

THE ALLEGED EARLY APOCOPE OF *-i IN CELTIC

THEMATIC AND ATHEMATIC VERB FORMS IN OLD IRISH

OLD IRISH ol ‘INQUIT’

ON THE RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY OF CELTIC SOUND CHANGES

LACHMANN’S LAW AGAIN

THREE NOTES ON THE OLD IRISH VERB

OLD IRISH feda, GEN. fedot ‘LORD’ AND THE 1ST SG. ABSOLUTE ENDING -a IN SUBJUNCTIVES AND FUTURES

MORE ON THE CELTIC VERB

ITALO-CELTIC

OLD IRISH VERBAL PARADIGMS

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-194) and index.

ISBN:

9789401204170

9401204179

9781429481304

1429481307

OCLC:

714567263

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204170 DOI