@ChronHib @ryanmolloymusic They turned up (not unexpectedly 😅) in March and have rather changed our lives! They're the main audience for my singing at the moment, poor mites.
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Mark Darling
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Mark Darling
@mdarling91
Historical Linguist (Celtic/Indo-European) @Uni_WUE | Erstwhile Tenor Lay Clerk @ElyCathChoir @Ely_Cathedral
Würzburg, Germany 가입일 Mart 2012
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@mdarling91 @ryanmolloymusic Very relevant, indeed! 😉 I didn't know about your twins! Many congratulations!
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Many thanks @FrankmcnallyIT for this wonderful Irish Diary entry about the première of Ryan Molloy's @ryanmolloymusic piece for 2 choirs on my Old Irish hymn "Rétglu etir rind (Is álaind a llaë indíu)"!
irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…
It was a pleasure you and Sarah came.
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@ChronHib @ryanmolloymusic Sadly, I'm yet to find a choir in Würzburg (been a bit busy with finding my feet and the arrival of our twins), but I'd certainly want to be able to recommend it to a director when I do find somewhere to sing in the near future! Seems very Würzburg-relevant, after all.
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@mdarling91 @ryanmolloymusic Thanks a lot, Mark! Do you want to perform it? I don't have the score myself. I am not sure how often Ryan reads his Twitter account, so i might be best to send him an email (you'll easily find his address on the Maynooth website).
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Very sorry to have had to postpone this due to illness, but it will take place on January 27th, instead.
Mark Darling@mdarling91
I'm talking on Monday evening (18h CET online) about some research in progress into what we can find out about early Brittonic from British Latin, with particular focus on an interesting Romano-British curse tablet.
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I'm talking on Monday evening (18h CET online) about some research in progress into what we can find out about early Brittonic from British Latin, with particular focus on an interesting Romano-British curse tablet.
elena.parina@elena_parina
Join us 16.12 at 18:00 CET, at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar: Mark Darling (Uni Würzburg) @mdarling91 British Latin as a window on early Brittonic Celtic Please send us an email at celtic@uni-bonn.de if you have not already done so this term.
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@Mellohi_enwikt A further thought on this: the "pattern" for i-redup presents (based on 2/3 tokens, admittedly) seems to have been to take the PIE weak stem and thematise. Examples are only in Cib.: zizeti <-- *di-dH-, sistat <-- *si-sth2-. If this is a PC pattern, we might want *īig- vel sim...
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Going back to this one, I presume that with the loss of productivity of i-reduplicated presents, Celtic speakers would fail to segment yeig-e/o- as one and thus reform an e-grade s-subjunctive as if to a root *yeig-.
Mark Darling@mdarling91
@Mellohi_enwikt Hmm, I guess the issue then is that we shouldn't expect the subjunctive íexsetesi to be formed to the reduplicated present stem, at least based on its behaviour in the other Celtic languages. We have so few tokens in Gaulish that we can't really be sure, of course.
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@Mellohi_enwikt Of course, we don't know how faithfully root ablaut in the s-preterite was preserved in Gaulish. But I think assuming a neo-root *yēg- would be extended across the paradigm potentially overestimates speakers' intolerance to allomorphy!
I'll have a further think about this. 🙂
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@Mellohi_enwikt This is a neat idea and certainly possible, of course, although I think the situation would have been complicated by other stem formations to this root, e.g. a PC s-preterite like 3sg *ī(y)xst ~ pl *eyxsant, whose weak stem could buttress subj. *eyxseti. 1/
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@Mellohi_enwikt Hmm, I guess the issue then is that we shouldn't expect the subjunctive íexsetesi to be formed to the reduplicated present stem, at least based on its behaviour in the other Celtic languages. We have so few tokens in Gaulish that we can't really be sure, of course.
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@mdarling91 The diphthongization was proposed by Schrijver, Mees went with the i-reduplicated present (i.e. yod-initial). I preferred the yod so that all 3 of the Celtic, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit can be traced back to one verb formation.
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@Mellohi_enwikt - Strictly, if we want to take Celtiberian at face value, we should probably reconstruct *eygeti and *eygla. It appears that Cib. retains the inherited diphthong *ey, so its monophthongisation to *ē cannot be considered truly Proto-Celtic.
Keep up the good work! 2/2
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@Mellohi_enwikt Nice stuff! A couple of small points:
- I think you're right not to reconstruct the glide for *ēgla. Breaking of earlier Gaulish /ē/ > /yē/ or /yĕ/ is Gaulish internal, so we also don't need *y in the PC finite verb. (Can't remember what I projected into PC in my thesis.) 1/2
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@MWeissOHCGL Oof. Not the best sentence to come out of my old department, but sadly perhaps not wholly unrepresentative of how other parts of the faculty view the excellent linguists there..! I'll have to have a look at James's contribution.
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IEist, we are failing
Gibson and Whitton: "PIE appears to be the object of
baffling cultic veneration. (PIE linguists.. share an unacknowledged disciplinary border with theology: the existence of the invisible subject of study is ultimately a matter of faith; God is in the gaps."
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'If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone', Trump says, surprising everyone with his sudden understanding of the fundamental principle that nobody is above the law. That's what he meant, right..?
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#FLEXI is recruiting for a phd student working on O’Davoren’s Glossary!
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"Dear Editor,
I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole."
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I can warmly recommend @Uni_WUE, particularly for anyone keen to study comparative Indo-European linguistics (potentially with me) or immunology with @lippert_lab. 👨🎓👩🎓
Björn Schumacher@schumacherbj
Dear international students and talents from around the world, note that German universities welcome foreign students, are tuition free and many subjects are taught in English. Germany has become an open and liberal society in contrast to what the UK government is implementing.
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Dear international students and talents from around the world, note that German universities welcome foreign students, are tuition free and many subjects are taught in English. Germany has become an open and liberal society in contrast to what the UK government is implementing.
Rishi Sunak@RishiSunak
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK. In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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