Naslov
The Substratum in Insular Celtic

Autori
Matasović, Ranko

Izvornik
Voprosy jazykovogo rodstva/Journal of Language Relationship (2073-6320) 8 (2012); 153-159

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Pre-Celtic substratum ; Goidelic ; Brittonic ; Insular Celtic ; classification of Celtic languages ; etymology ; reconstruction ; loanwords ; wandering words

Sažetak
The discussion focuses on the problem of pre-Celtic substratum languages in the British Islands. The article by R. Matasović begins by dealing with the syntactic features of Insular Celtic languages (Brittonic and Goidelic): the author analyses numerous innovations in Insular Celtic and finds certain parallels in languages of the Afro-Asiatic macrofamily. The second part of his paper contains the analysis of that particular part of the Celtic lexicon which cannot be attributed to the PIE layer. A number of words for which only a substratum origin can be assumed is attested only in Brittonic and Goidelic. The author proposes to reconstruct Proto-Insular Celtic forms for this section of the vocabulary. This idea encounters objections from T. Mikhailova, who prefers to qualify common non-Celtic lexicon of Goidelic and Brittonic as parallel loanwords from the same substratum language. The genetic value of this language, however, remains enigmatic for both authors.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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