Education
Leiden University.
Leiden University.
He worked previously at Leiden University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has published three books and a large number of articles on the history and linguistics of Indo-European languages, particularly the description, reconstruction and syntax of the Celtic languages, and lately researching language change and language contact in ancient Europe. 1990: “Latin festīnāre, Welsh brys”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 51: 243–247.
1991: “The development of primitive Irish *aN before voiced stop”, Ériu 42: 13–25.
1992: “The development of PIE *skin British”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 39: 1–15. 1993:
“On the development of vowels before tautosyllabic nasals in Primitive Irish”, Ériu 44: 33–52.
“Varia IV. OIr. dëec, dëac”, Ériu 44: 181–184. 1994: “The Celtic adverbs for ‘against’ and ‘with’ and the early apocope of *-i”, Ériu 45: 151–189.
1997: “Some western European substratum words”, Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honor of Robert South.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, educated
Alexander Lubotsky. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 293–316. 1996: “OIr. gor ‘pious, dutiful’: meaning and etymology”, Ériu 47: 193–204.
1998: “The British word for ‘fox’ and its Indo-European origins”, JIES 26: 421–434.
1999:
“Vedic gr̥bhṇā́ti, gr̥bhāyáti and the semantics of *yederivatives of nasal presents”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 59: 115–162. “Vowel rounding by Primitive Irish labiovelars”, Ériu 50: 133–137. “On henbane and early European narcotics”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 51: 17–45.
2001: “Lost languages in Northern Europe”, Early Contacts Between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations, eds.
C. Carpelan, A. Parpola & P. Koskikallio. Helsinki: Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne: 417–425.
2003:
“Athematic i-presents: the Italic and Celtic evidence”, Incontri Linguistici 26: 59–86. “The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and etymology of PIE *k(ʷ)sweibʰ-”, Year Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh, educated
P. Russell. Aberystwyth: 1–23.
2004: “Indo-European *smerin Greek and Celtic”, Indo-European perspectives: Studies in honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, educated J. Penney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 292–299. 2005: “Early Celtic diphthongization and the Celtic-Latin interface”, New Approaches to Celtic Placenames in Ptolemy’s Geography, eds.
J. de Hoz, R.L. Luján & Patrick Sims-Williams.
Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 55–67. 2007: “Some common developments of Continental and Insular Celtic”, Gaulois et celtique continental, eds.
Pierre-Yves Lambert & Georges-Jean Pinault. Geneva: Droz, 357–371.
2011: Brythonic Celtic—Britannisches Keltisch: From Medieval British to Modern Breton, educated
Elmar Ternes. Bremen: Hempen Verlag. “Old British”, 1–85. “Middle Breton”, 358–429.
Reviews
2003: Review of University of California, Los Angeles Indo-European Studies Volume 1, edited by Brent Vine & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Kratylos 48: 89–93.
2006: Review of Veni Vidi Vici: Die Vorgeschichte des lateinischen Perfektsystems, by Gerhard Meiser, Kratylos 51: 46–64.