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Guess what? The call for papers for the XVIII Celtic Congress in Salamanca is open! internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com/index.php/re...

I‘m very much looking forward to being there!

If anyone likes Old Irish and is in Oxford on Friday, May 8, I’m talking about language variation.

Yes. It seems that Dental-Labial-Dental is an acceptable sequence in Old Irish, as seen in one of my favourite forms do·aidbdetar 'they are shown' (Ml. 30b2, from *to·að-u̯ēð-odor, pres. pass. 3pl. to do·adbat 'he shows' ).

Hmm. Good point that my suggested derivation may not show the correct development. There is also *nm < *nw (cf. enw 'name' < *anman (plus analogy) or mynwent 'graveyard' < L monumenta). Looks like I have some more thinking to do.

is ainmnet 'patience' (MW anmynedd) < *an-men-. I have about six or eight months before the paper is due, so I'll have to see if I figure out what to do with this in the meantime.

There are plenty of counter-examples to my proposed rule, but as far as I can see, all but one can be explained by analogy. The question (as always with new rules) is whether the proposed rule does enough work to offset the downside (i.e. the analogy needed). The one form I cannot explain... 1/

Hmm. I just realised that this was my very first actual post on this platform. I guess I was waiting for the right moment.

and a few others. If this works, *are- before a nasal would NOT lead to a palatalised cluster, and once there are allomorphs, analogy could enter into the picture. I did not look at *are, I must admit (the paper is already too long), but we can add it to the to-do list for the field. /3

of them is the syncope of *e (not *i) between a resonant and a nasal. Good examples are gen. sg. dénmo 'of a deed' < *degnīmōs, almost all prototonic present and future stem forms of con·icc 'can' (so ·cumcu 'I can', ·cumgat 'they can', etc.), acc pl fernu 'belts' < *ferenu (nom. sg. ferenn)... /2

I just finished a paper that *might*, if correct, be able to explain a number of non-palatalised forms from *are (with considerable analogy). Basically I looked for unexpected non-palatalisation resulting from syncope of front vowels and I found a few conditions conducive to non-pal. One... /1

I'm going to do a wild-card call for help here, and hope that Bluesky by now is just as magic as Twitter used to be back in the day! For a podcast I'm creating on #spelling (yes, you read that right) I'm looking for people who'd be willing to talk to me about spelling in post-colonial situations 1/3

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