{"title":"Review Article: Welsh in the Contemporary Work–Place","authors":"Ben Screen","doi":"10.16922/jcl.25.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.25.5","url":null,"abstract":"Y Gymraeg a Gweithlu'r Gymru Gyfoes is an edited volume of contributions with the aim of reflecting on various aspects of using Welsh in the workplace, stemming from a conference on the same theme in 2017 funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. An important sphere of\u0000 life and one which is essential to effective language planning, a critical discussion of the use of Welsh in the workplace is timely. It includes discussions on various aspects of language planning and policy for the workplace, from Welsh medium provision in higher education to adult second\u0000 language acquisition. Overall themes structure the review and individual chapters are reviewed within these themes.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":"56 4-5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140507634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Early Concept of the Celtic Colour Term glas in Welsh and Irish and its Later Semantic Diversification","authors":"Sabine Asmus, Mark Ó Fionnáin","doi":"10.16922/jcl.25.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.25.2","url":null,"abstract":"The Celtic colour term glas has been subject to a number of misconceptions over the decades, e.g.that it is a grue category, that it is untranslatable, and that the range of colour shades covered by glas is cross-linguistically rare. Coming from a diachronic perspective,\u0000 this article aims to give a logical explanation of the developments of the semantics of glas, followed by an overview of the synchronic semantics of the word in both Irish and Welsh.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140508632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Distribution of 3. pl. pres. ind. -(h)yn(t) and the Dating of Welsh Prophetic Poetry","authors":"Ben Guy","doi":"10.16922/jcl.25.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.25.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article gathers together the evidence for the third-person plural present indicative verbal ending -(h)yn(t) and attempts to trace the history of its usage. The ending is attested primarily in prophetic poetry, though relevant forms are also found in Old Welsh and elsewhere\u0000 in the Hengerdd. It appears that the ending fell out of general use between the tenth and twelfth century. It lingered a little longer in prophetic poetry, with the latest dateable examples found in a stanza composed shortly after 1211/12. It is suggested that the ending was adopted\u0000 as a marker of prophetic poetry because it had already developed a specific association with future-time reference.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":"36 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140506774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Duroliponte, les Lepontii, les noms de personnes Lippus, Lipo, Magulipos, et les lieux en Durum","authors":"X. Delamarre","doi":"10.16922/jcl.25.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.25.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140506710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aavioghey as y Breear: Language Revitalization and the Manx Verbal System","authors":"E. McNulty","doi":"10.16922/jcl.24.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.24.4","url":null,"abstract":"Many minority languages across Europe and elsewhere, including in the Celtic-speaking world, underwent linguistic obsolescence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In some cases, this ultimately progressed to language death. Manx, the autochthonous Goidelic Celtic language of\u0000 the Isle of Man, was one such case. In more recent times, the Manx language has seen a revival, which has increased speaker numbers. Manx represents an atypical situation among minority languages, as the present-day speaker community is, with few exceptions, made up of speakers who have had\u0000 no direct contact with traditional native speakers. Therefore, the present-day Manx speaker community bears closer resemblance to that of Cornish, as well as those of urban varieties of Irish and Scottish Gaelic, than to speaker communities in traditional Celtic language heartlands. This article\u0000 discusses the language use of speakers of Revitalized Manx. It investigates some aspects of linguistic structure in the language use of three groups of speakers who have acquired the language in different contexts: teachers of Manx, speakers who received Manx instruction through the medium\u0000 of English, and speakers who have received Manx-immersion education. An analysis of a number of verbal forms reveals differences in these three groups of Manx speakers, which may be correlated with the amount and type of input in Manx these speakers have received. The article discusses these\u0000 findings in the wider context of processes influencing the linguistic production of speakers of revitalized minority languages.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preocclusion in Manx","authors":"Christopher Lewin","doi":"10.16922/jcl.24.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.24.5","url":null,"abstract":"Preocclusion – the insertion of a homorganic stop element before stressed final nasals and laterals – is one of the best-known features of Manx phonology. In written sources the phenomenon is only attested in certain nineteenth-century folksong manuscripts in non-standard\u0000 orthography, although there is reason to believe it developed significantly earlier. This article examines the phenomenon from synchronic, diachronic and comparative perspectives, evaluates previous hypotheses regarding its origins, and proposes an account which situates preocclusion within\u0000 wider developments in the liquid consonant inventory and prosody of the modern Gaelic languages. In particular, building on the intuitions of Rhŷ;s (1894), it is argued that the development of preocclusion in Manx is most plausibly to be linked to the reduction of the fortis-lenis contrast\u0000 in nasals and liquids and loss of gemination. Synchronically, preocclusion can be seen as one of a number of a developments which increase the weight of syllable codas in Gaelic phonology (Iosad 2016). Accounts involving language contact (McDonald 2021) are superficially attractive given the\u0000 presence of preocclusion in Scandinavian, but it is more likely this is the result of deeper structural similarities in the phonology of northern European languages, perhaps related to much older language contact in the region (Iosad 2016).","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47276967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Replications of Gaulish Toponyms in Biscay: On the Etymologies of Gorbeia, Orobio and Orozko","authors":"Mikel Martínez-Areta","doi":"10.16922/jcl.24.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.24.2","url":null,"abstract":"There is a number of ethnonyms, toponyms and hydronyms in the central-northern part of the Iberian Peninsula which have been traditionally accounted for, with varying degrees of reliability, as names given by settlers coming from northern Gaul in the third centurybc. Thus, the Suessiones\u0000 may have provided the base for the ethnonym Suessetani (Huesca) and the site Suestatio (Araba). They may also have brought the name Corbio mentioned by Livy as a town of the Suessetani. Similarly, the river Nervión, the ethnonym Autrigones,\u0000 the divine name Vurovius, the choronym Bureba and its capital Briviesca (in northern Burgos), and some others like the Biscayan site Orobio, have been connected to the migrations of the Nervii mentioned by Caesar and related northern Gaulish peoples. All\u0000 these names will be discussed and analysed in conjunction, and two new etymologies will be proposed, within the frame of these migrations, for two place names in Biscay: Mount Gorbeia and Orozko.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49063531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-canonical Syntax: Predicative Demonstrative Clauses in Welsh","authors":"Robert M Jones","doi":"10.16922/jcl.24.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.24.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45854908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The South-West of Ancient Hispania in its Linguistic and Epigraphic Context","authors":"J. L. Alonso","doi":"10.16922/jcl.24.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.24.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a linguistic and epigraphic context to the so-called 'Tartessian' or 'Southwestern' inscriptions from ancient Hispania. Starting from the general linguistic landscape in the Iberian Peninsula in pre-Roman and Roman times, with an overview of Lusitanian, in the vicinity\u0000 of these texts, and of the relatively well-known Celtiberian and pre-Indo-European languages (Iberian and Vasconic-Aquitanian), a description of the Palaeo-Hispanic variety of the writing system used in these texts is offered. In the final section, analysing in detail some of the arguments\u0000 to defend the Celticity of these inscriptions, a conclusion is reached that the large funerary stone stelae from Southern Portugal are not written in Celtic or any other Indo-European language, but rather in a largely unknown non-Indo-European agglutinative language.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43556392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cadelling ffraw and the Date of Marwnad Cynddylan","authors":"P. Sims‐Williams","doi":"10.16922/jcl.24.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16922/jcl.24.6","url":null,"abstract":"Anachronistic rhymes can indicate that lines of Welsh poetry cannot go back to an early date. This note considers the elegy on the seventh-century Cynddylan. This has been held to be non-contemporary because the word braw 'terror', which never had a final fricative, rhymes with\u0000 words that originally did have one. It is pointed out that the manuscript reading, ffraw, need not be connected with braw ; instead, it may be the adjective ffraw 'brisk, fervent, mighty', which originally had a nasal fricative (cf. the river name Ffraw,\u0000 English Frome), or a cognate of Old Irish sráb 'torrent', or a form of Welsh ffrawdd 'passion, violence, annoyance'. A suggested emendation to ffaw 'fame, famous' < Latin fāma is also discussed. All these would have had final fricatives\u0000 and would have rhymed acceptably.","PeriodicalId":35107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Celtic Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43558516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}