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Cette Nouvelle grammaire bretonne du dialecte de Vannes a été rédigée afin de décrire les bases de la grammaire du breton vannetais standard. Jusqu’à ce jour, les apprenants qui s’intéressent au breton vannetais devaient se référer à la... more
Looking at evidence for language change and dialects in Cumbric place-names in England and in Scotland.
""""This article provides phonetic, lexical and grammatical evidence that Basque is an Indo-European language. It provides a brief history of previous research into the origins of Basque; a short description of the genesis of this... more
Breton, Cornish and Welsh are thought to have originated in a language similar to the Gaulish Language in Continental Europe, known as Common Brittonic or Ancient British. We have little direct evidence of this Brittonic Language in... more
Despite being dormant during the nineteenth century, the Cornish language has been recently recognised by the British Government as a living regional language after a long period of revival. The first part of this paper discusses the... more
The article discusses the gender of suffixes deriving abstract nouns of the Brittonic languages Welsh, Breton and Cornish against the theoretical background of functional gender theories. These theories assume that gender plays a role in... more
Intensifiers and reflexives have been studied as features both in areal linguistics and in the context of substratum hypotheses. While typical SAE languages differentiate between intensifiers and reflexives, English, Welsh and Irish use... more
This revised version mostly expands and corrects the discussion of the succession and family relationships of the early Anglian kings of Bernicia; the emendations have a marginal bearing only on the general proposition regarding the... more
This paper explores the history of the Middle Welsh preterite impersonal -pwyt in which -p- has been unexplained until now. By looking at the expected development of the preterite impersonal I argue that -pwyt was actually borrowed from... more
This article provides phonetic, lexical and grammatical evidence that Basque is an Indo-European language. It provides a brief history of previous research into the origins of Basque; a short description of the genesis of this... more
This presentation investigates the issue of whether the Pictish root for 'hound' was /kon/ contrasting with Brittonic /kon/. It that this issue can no longer be considered as evidence for significant Pictish divergence from Brittonic.
My article "Evidence for Basque as an Indo-European Language" was published in the Journal of Indo-European Studies (volume 41) as a discussion paper, i.e., it was followed by other specialists' comments, and by my reply to such... more
I argue that despite their traditional verb-first vs. verb second partition, Welsh and Breton both instantiate a ban on verb-first and I present an analysis of these two languages as fundamentally verb second. In this view, so-called verb... more
A description of the Middle Cornish manuscript found amongst the Puleston Papers by John Mackechnie in 1949, now Add. MS. 46397 in the British Library. The manuscript is a sixteenth-century translation into Cornish of thirteen homilies... more
"We address the syntax and parametric variation underlying the verb ‘have’ from the empirical domain of Breton diachronic and dialectal variation. We introduce the Celtic agreement system characterized by Complementarity Effects and show... more
A comprehensive Bibliography (over 1,000 items) which is fully searchable on tags. Books, book sections, articles, websites, webpages, and some arts resources though little fiction, Can be used to take citations or make your own... more
Abstract: I argue that despite their traditional verb-first vs. verb second partition, Welsh and Breton both instantiate a ban on verb-first and I present an analysis of these two languages as fundamentally verb second. In this view,... more
Talk given at the Cornish Language Research conference 2014
Ur studiadenn verr eus perzhioù kar ha perzhioù disheñvel an div yezh bredennek tostañ, ar brezhoneg hag ar c'herneveureg
A short study of close items and differences between Breton an Cornish, the two closest brythonic languages
A short study of close items and differences between Breton an Cornish, the two closest brythonic languages
We address the syntax and parametric variation underlying the verb 'have' from the empirical domain of Breton diachronic and dialectal variation. We introduce the Celtic agreement system characterized by Complementarity Effects... more
Wiki grammaire du breton moderne
This thesis seeks to address a small number of highly significant, unresolved issues in the consonantal system of the Cornish language, providing an analysis of the relevant sound changes during the crucial formative periods of their... more