How to define Celtiberian archaisms?

Authors

  • Karl Horst Schmidt Universidad de Bonn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i10.119

Keywords:

Archaism, Archaisms Restricted to Celtiberian, Central-Celtic vs. Marginal Languages, Celtic Contact with East European Languages, Celtic and Proto-Indo-European

Abstract

The article defines Celtiberian (CI) archaisms in four different ways:

I. CI archaisms correspond to the reconstructed form of one or the other Celtic language.

II. CI archaisms are conditioned by the position of CI as one of the Mar- ginal Languages which —in contrast to Gallo-Brittonic as Central-Celtic— have preserved features of earlier Proto-Celtic.

III. CI archaisms fall together with the development of linguistic features in east Indo-European (IE) languages including Greek, without being attested in Italic and Germanic.

IV. CI archaisms possibly reflect Proto-IE.

Every type is illustrated by some examples.

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Published

2019-06-13

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Section

Celtiberia. Plateau

How to Cite

How to define Celtiberian archaisms?. (2019). Palaeohispanica. Review about Languages and Cultures of Ancient Hispania, 10, 479-487. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i10.119

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