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The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic: 7
Author(s): Nicholas Zair (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 22 Aug. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 364 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004225390
- ISBN-13: 9789004225398
Book Description
In The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, Nicholas Zair for the first time collects and assesses all the words from the Celtic languages which contained a laryngeal, and identifies the regular results of the laryngeals in each phonetic environment. This allows him to formulate previously unrecognised sound changes affecting Proto-Celtic, and assess the competing explanations for other developments. This work has far-reaching consequences for the understanding of the historical phonology and morphology of the Celtic languages, and for etymological work involving the Celtic language, along with implications for Indo-European sound laws and the Indo-European syllable. A major conclusion is that the laryngeals cannot be used to argue for an Italo-Celtic language family.
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About the Author
Nicholas Zair, D.Phil (2010), Oxford University, is Research Fellow in Classics at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He has published several articles on Celtic and Indo-European historical phonology and morphology, including “PIE ‘bird’ and ‘egg’ after Schindler” (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 65).
