Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica

Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

Edited by Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd and Nicolas Jacobs

pp xxxv335 1995 hardback
ISBN 0-7083-1282-9

A volume which celebrates the enormous contribution of D. Ellis Evans, Professor of Celtic and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. These essays reflect his interest in early Celtic culture throughout Europe, with special reference to its relationship with that of the classical world, and in the history of the Celtic languages and the early literatures of Wales and Ireland.

Contents

• Appreciation/Gwerthfawrogiad
  • R. Geraint Gruffydd
• D. Ellis Evans. Bibliography/Llyfryddiaeth 1942 – 1994
• Mi a dynghaf dynghed and related problems
  • T. M. Charles-Edwards
• Gaulish accentuation. Results and outlook
  • Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel
• Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic
  • Joseph F. Eska
• On slow and uneven change
  • Eric P. Hamp
• Suggestions for improving the notation used for Celtic historical linguistics
  • Anthony Harvey
• Is -s the mark of the plural of the preterite in the Gaulish verb?
  • Javier de Hoz
• Drysni geirfaol y gwahanglwyf: claf, clafwr, clawr, clafr
  • Nicolas Jacobs
• Further to Indo-European *g^wh in Celtic
  • John T. Koch
• Three Brittonic lexical notes
  • Pierre-Yves Lambert
• Composition and collocation of synonyms in Irish and Welsh
  • Proinsias Mac Cana
• Celtiberian uameišTe
  • Wolfgang Meid
• Notes on the narrative present in Middle Welsh
  • Erich Poppe
• La stele di Cureggio
  • Filippo Motta
• Edward Lhuyd a darganfod Hen Gymraeg
  • Brynley F. Roberts
• Brittonic words in Irish glossaries
  • Paul Russell
• Rekonstruktion und Transformation des Protokeltischen
  • Karl Horst Schmidt
• (t): Un o newidynnau tafodieithol y Frythoneg
  • Peter Wynn Thomas
• Indo-European *g^wh in Celtic, 1894 – 1994
  • Patrick Sims-Williams
• Zum Stand der Deutung der 'tartessischen' Inschriften
  • Jürgen Untermann
• El hidrónimo prerromano Tamusia, moderno Tamuja
  • Francisco Villar
• The descriptive predicative phrase in Old and Middle Welsh
  • T. Arwyn Watkins
• Notulae
  • J. E. Caerwyn Williams
• Die altkymrischen Frauennamen. Ein erster Einblick
  • Stefan Zimmer

Editors: Joseph Eska, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd, former Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies; Nicolas Jacobs, Fellow and Tutor in English, Jesus College, Oxford.