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The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400-1200 (Publications of the Philological Society) [Paperback]

Patrick Sims-Williams (Author)

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March 31, 2003 Publications of the Philological Society
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.

  • First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.
  • Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions.
  • Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions.

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"[Sims-Williams's] concern is to give due weight to all the possibilities rather than to rush into one attractive interpretation. This will make the book extremely valuable as a restraining influence on the rasher tendencies of other scholars. The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain is a major achievement in Celtic historical linguistics and will be an indispensible work of reference for many years to come."
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"(Celtic Inscriptions of Britain) represents an invaluable contribution to its field."
Cumbrian Medieval Celtic Studies

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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..

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The corpus of 371 inscriptions examined in this book comprises nearly all the inscriptions listed by R.A.S. Macalister in his Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum (1945-49), other than those in Ireland and Iona (CIIC 1-317, 521-967, 1070-95), with the addition of 25 inscriptions from Brittany, plus a large number of inscriptions from western Britain and Man which were unknown to Macalister. Read the first page
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des saints bretons, composition vowel, epigraphic dates, celtique continental, anomalous inscriptions, hypercorrect spelling, ogam inscriptions, langue gauloise, ogam stones, contributory problem, ogam script, sic leg, linguistic dating, linguistic periods, secondary affection, dubious reading, hypocoristic form, internal affection, inscriptional evidence, spelling habits, accent shift, same inscription, epenthetic vowel, uncertain reading, sound changes
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Brittonic Period, Irish Period, Mute Stones, Ifor Williams, Vulgar Latin, Old Welsh, Roman Britain, Old Breton, Historical Morphology, Book of Llandaf, Old Irish, Canu Aneirin, Celtic Word-Formation, Insular Celtic, Mac Cana, Primitive Irish, Vita Samsonis, Isle of Man, Middle Welsh, Continental Celtic, Royal Commission, Cardiganshire County History, Celtic Voices, Historia Brittonum, Old English
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