Re: Celtic Consonant Development

Thank you!

I appreciate your suggested resources. I feel I should mention that
I do have a (general/basic) understanding of linquistic termonology.
The reason I specified "for the layperson" was because I assumed
that Academic Journals weren't available to the "non-professional".
I do have one other question: Are the Journals with titles in French
or German written in English, or their resepctful languages?

Again, thank you for your references.

Daniel Hill
d_rock80@...

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "C. Gwinn" <sonno3@...> wrote:
>
> >1. Where can I find in-depth information on the development of the
> >Celtic languages (in general) from PIE?
>
> Try Academic Journals such as Etudes Celtiques or Zeitschrift fuer
Celtische
> Philologie as well as books like:
> Russell, P. An Introduction to the Celtic Languages. New York, 1995
> Ball, M. J., Fife, James, eds. The Celtic Languages. London and New
York,
> 1993.
> as well as:
> Lambert, P.-Y. La Langue Gauloise. Paris, Paris, 1995.
>
> >3. How did the vowels and diphthongs develope from Common Celtic
> >through Common Brythonic to Old, Middle, and Modern Welsh?
>
> See not only Lambert above, but also:
> Jackson, K. H. Language and History in Early Britain. Edinburgh,
1953
>
> >5. Is there any resource material (available to the layperson) that
> >discusses (in detail) the phonology of all the Celtic languages
(but
> >most specifically Irish and Welsh)??
>
> Not much for the layperson - but if you familiarize yourself with
the basics
> of linguistic terminology, you should be able to get the gist of
things in
> most of the journals and books mentioned above. I suggest getting a
> "dictionary of linguistics" to help you out with the terms and some
of the
> basic theories.
> Once you get that, try this book:
> Lewis, H., Pedersen H. A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar. 2nd
Edition.
> Goettingen, 1961.
>
> Hope this helps,
> C. Gwinn