Patrick Sims‐Williams
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View article: ‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED Open
Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparc…
View article: Sandhi h after third-person pronouns in Middle Welsh
Sandhi h after third-person pronouns in Middle Welsh Open
‘Sandhi h’ after 3 sg. feminine possessive pronouns in Welsh, Cornish, and Breton is agreed to be ancient. Although it has been supposed that sandhi h after other pronouns in Welsh is also of ancient origin, an earlier study (Sims-Williams…
View article: ‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ <i>Y</i> in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo
‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ <i>Y</i> in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo Open
A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of for both /ǝ/ and the retracted high vowel /ɨ(:)/. This double use of was almost universally adopted by c . 1330, when a grammarian labelled /ǝ/ and /ɨ/ as ‘dark …
View article: An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West’
An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West’ Open
This article discusses a problem in integrating archaeology and philology. For most of the twentieth century, archaeologists associated the spread of the Celtic languages with the supposed westward spread of the ‘eastern Hallstatt culture’…