The Celtic Languages In Contact

Universität Potsdam Hildegard L.C. Tristram (ed.) The Celtic Languages in Contact Papers from the Workshop within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies, Bonn, 26-27 July 2007 Potsdam University Press Hildegard L.C. Tristram (ed.) The Celtic Languages in Contact Papers from the Workshop within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies, Bonn, 26-27 July 2007 Potsdam University Press 2007 Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Universitätsverlag Potsdam 2007 http://info.ub.uni-potsdam.de/verlag.htm Herausgeberin: Satz: Druck: Prof. Dr. Hildegard L.C. Tristram Luminiţa-Irinel Traşcă docupoint GmbH Magdeburg ISBN 978-3-940793-07-2 URL http://pub.ub.uni-potsdam.de/volltexte/2007/1568/ URN http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15682 Das Manuskript ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Es darf ohne vorherige Genehmigung der Herausgeberin nicht vervielfältigt werden. Contents Hildegard L.C. Tristram (University of Freiburg i.Brsg.) Introduction…………………………………………………………………..1 Ancient Period Tatyana A. Mikhailova (Moscow State University, Russia) Macc, Cailín and Céile – an Altaic Element in Celtic?.…………………..4 Graham R. Isaac (National University of Ireland, Galway) Celtic and Afro-Asiatic………………………………………………….25 Karin Stüber (University of Zurich) Effects of Language Contact on Roman and Gaulish Personal Names…..81 Ranko Matasović (University of Zagreb) Insular Celtic as a Language Area………………………………………93 Gearóid Mac Eoin (National University of Ireland, Galway) What Language was Spoken in Ireland before Irish?…………………..113 Modern Period Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Łódź) Prepositional Possessive Constructions in Celtic Languages and Celtic Englishes………………………………………………………..126 II Contents Gary German (University of Western Brittany, Brest) Language Shift, Diglossia and Dialectal Variation in Western Brittany: the Case of Southern Cornouaille……………………………146 Alan M. Kent (Open University, United Kingdom) “Mozeying on down …”: The Cornish Language in North America….193 Liam Mac Mathúna (University College Dublin) The Growth of Irish (L1) / English (L2) Literary Code-mixing, 1600-1900: Contexts, Genres and Realisations………………………...217 Raymond Hickey (Essen University) Syntax and Prosody in Language Contact and Shift…………………...235 Katrin Thier (Oxford English Dictionary) Of Picts and Penguins – Celtic Languages in the New Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary……………………………………………..246 Feargal Ó Béarra (National University of Ireland, Galway) Late Modern Irish and the Dynamics of Language Change and Language Death………………………………………………………...260 John M. Kirk & Jeffrey L. Kallen (Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin) Assessing Celticity in a Corpus of Irish Standard English……………..270 Hildegard L.C. Tristram (University of Freiburg i.Brsg.) On the ‘Celticity’ of Irish Newspapers – A Research Report………….299 Göran Wolf (Technical University of Dresden) Language Contact, Change of Language Status – ‘Celtic’ National Languages in the British Isles and Ireland……………………………..315 Introduction Hildegard L.C. Tristram This e-book contains fifteen papers given at the Thirteenth International Congress of Celtic Studies, organised by Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut – Abteilung Keltologie – of the University of Bonn and Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn (Germany), most of them at the Workshop of “The Celtic Languages in Contact” on the 26th and 27th of July 2007. The Workshop was organised by Prof. Hildegard L.C. Tristram and the presentations were chaired by both Prof. Tristram a