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SUMMARY:On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic - Joe Eska\, Virgin
 ia Tech
DTSTART:20160114T163000Z
DTEND:20160114T183000Z
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CONTACT:Jamie Douglas
DESCRIPTION:The surface VSO clausal configuration of the early Insular Cel
 tic languages (preserved to the present day in the Goidelic branch\, but g
 iven up in the medieval period by the Brittonic branch\, though restored i
 n modern Welsh) stands alone within the Indo-European family.  Most schola
 rship that addresses how the V1 configuration arose employs syntactic evid
 ence from archaic Indo-European languages\, especially Hittite\, Vedic San
 skrit\, and Homeric Greek as the starting point from which to try to motiv
 ate changes that led to the Insular Celtic facts.\n\nThere is\, however\, 
 a not inconsiderable amount of evidence from the fragmentarily attested Ce
 ltic languages of the ancient European continent\, especially from Transal
 pine Gaul\, that should be brought to bear upon the question\, and it is d
 istinctly different in important ways from Hittite\, Vedic Sanskrit\, and 
 Homeric Greek.  This paper will outline the evidence that this corpus of d
 ata provides and demonstrate that the continental precursor to Insular Cel
 tic was SVO with pro-drop and possessed a higher left periphery for coding
  Topic and Focus above TP\, as well as a lower one above vP.  The result w
 ill provide a firmer basis for reconstructing the evolution of the surface
  configuration of the early Insular Celtic clause.  Some other features of
  Old Celtic syntax will emerge along the way. 
LOCATION:GR06-7\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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