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Italo-Celtic

April 12, 2023

In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities. They are usually considered to be innovations, likely to have developed after the breakup of the Proto-Indo-European language. It is also possible that some of these are not innovations, but shared conservative features, i.e. original Indo-European language features which have disappeared in all other language groups. What is commonly accepted is that the shared features may usefully be thought of as Italo-Celtic forms, as they are certainly shared by the two families and are almost certainly not coincidental.

Interpretations

The traditional interpretation of the data is that both sub-groups of the Indo-European language family are generally more closely related to each other than to the other Indo-European languages. That could imply that they are descended from a common ancestor, Proto-Italo-Celtic, which can be partly reconstructed by the comparative method. Scholars who believe that Proto-Italo-Celtic was an identifiable historical language estimate that it was spoken in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE somewhere in South-Central Europe.

That hypothesis fell out of favour after it was re-examined by Calvert Watkins in 1966.[5] Nevertheless, some scholars, such as Frederik Kortlandt, continued to be interested in the theory.[6] In 2002 a paper by Ringe, Warnow and Taylor, employing computational methods as a supplement to the traditional linguistic subgrouping methodology, argued in favour of an Italo-Celtic subgroup,[7] and in 2007 Kortlandt attempted a reconstruction of a Proto-Italo-Celtic.[8]

Emphatic support for an Italo-Celtic clade came from Celtologist Peter Schrijver in 1991.[9] More recently, Schrijver (2016) has argued that Celtic arose in the Italian Peninsula as the first branch of Italo-Celtic to split off, with areal affinities to Venetic and Sabellian, and identified Proto-Celtic archaeologically with the Canegrate culture of the Late Bronze Age of Italy (c. 1300–1100 BC).[10]

The most common alternative interpretation is that the proximity of Proto-Celtic and Proto-Italic over a long period could have encouraged the parallel development of what were already quite separate languages, as areal features within a Sprachbund. As Watkins (1966) puts it, "the community of -ī in Italic and Celtic is attributable to early contact, rather than to an original unity". The assumed period of language contact could then be later and perhaps continue well into the first millennium BC.

However, if some of the forms are archaic elements of Proto-Indo-European that were lost in other branches, neither model of post-PIE relationship must be postulated. Italic and especially Celtic also share several distinctive features with the Hittite language (an Anatolian language) and the Tocharian languages,[11] and those features are certainly archaisms.

Forms

The principal Italo-Celtic forms are:

  • the thematic genitive in ī (dominus, dominī). Both in Italic (Popliosio Valesiosio, Lapis Satricanus) and in Celtic (Lepontic -oiso, Celtiberian -o), traces of the -osyo genitive of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) have also been discovered, which might indicate that the spread of the ī genitive occurred in the two groups independently (or by areal diffusion). The ī genitive has been compared to the so-called Cvi formation in Sanskrit, but that too is probably a comparatively late development. The phenomenon is probably related to the feminine long ī stems and the Luwian i-mutation.
  • the formation of superlatives with reflexes of the PIE suffix *-ism̥mo- (Latin fortis, fortissimus "strong, strongest", Old Irish sen, sinem "old, oldest", Oscan mais, maimas "more, most"), where branches outside Italic and Celtic derive superlatives with reflexes of PIE *-isto- instead (Sanskrit: urús, váriṣṭhas "broad, broadest", Ancient Greek: καλός, κάλλιστος "beautiful, fairest", Old Norse rauðr, rauðastr "red, reddest", as well as, of course, English "-est").
  • the ā-subjunctive. Both Italic and Celtic have a subjunctive descended from an earlier optative in -ā-. Such an optative is not known from other languages, but the suffix occurs in Balto-Slavic and Tocharian past tense formations, and possibly in Hittite -ahh-.
  • the collapsing of the PIE aorist and perfect into a single past tense. In both groups, this is a relatively late development of the proto-languages, possibly dating to the time of Italo-Celtic language contact.
  • the assimilation of *p to a following *kʷ.[12] This development obviously predates the Celtic loss of *p:
    • PIE *pekʷ- 'cook' → Latin coquere; Welsh pobi (Welsh p is from Proto-Celtic *kʷ)
    • PIE *penkʷe 'five' → Latin quīnque; Old Irish cóic, Welsh pump
    • PIE *perkʷu- 'oak' → Latin quercus; Goidelic ethnonym Querni, in northwest Hispania Querquerni

A number of other similarities continue to be pointed out and debated.[13]

The r-passive (mediopassive voice) was initially thought to be an innovation restricted to Italo-Celtic until it was found to be a retained archaism shared with Hittite, Tocharian, and possibly the Phrygian language.

References

  1. ^ Kruta 1991, pp. 54–55.
  2. ^ Tamburelli, Marco; Brasca, Lissander (2018-06-01). "Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 33 (2): 442–455. doi:10.1093/llc/fqx041. ISSN 2055-7671.
  3. ^ Prósper, Blanca Maria; Villar, Francisco (2009). "NUEVA INSCRIPCIÓN LUSITANA PROCEDENTE DE PORTALEGRE". EMERITA, Revista de Lingüística y Filología Clásica (EM). LXXVII (1): 1–32. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  4. ^ Villar, Francisco (2000). Indoeuropeos y no indoeuropeos en la Hispania Prerromana [Indo-Europeans and non-Indo-Europeans in Pre-Roman Hispania] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. ISBN 84-7800-968-X. Retrieved 22 September 2014 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Watkins, Calvert, "Italo-Celtic Revisited". In: Birnbaum, Henrik; Puhvel, Jaan, eds. (1966). Ancient Indo-European dialects. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 29–50. OCLC 716409.
  6. ^ Kortlandt, Frederik H.H., "More Evidence for Italo-Celtic", in Ériu 32 (1981): 1-22.
  7. ^ Ringe, Don; Warnow, Tandy; Taylor, Ann (March 2002). "Indo-European and Computational Cladistics" (PDF). Transactions of the Philological Society. 100 (1): 59–129. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.139.6014. doi:10.1111/1467-968X.00091. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  8. ^ Kortlandt, Frederik H.H., Italo-Celtic Origins and Prehistoric Development of the Irish Language, Leiden Studies in Indo-European Vol. 14, Rodopi 2007, ISBN 978-90-420-2177-8.
  9. ^ Schrijver, Peter (1991). "V.E Italo-Celtic, The Development of the Laryngeals and Notes on Relative Chronology". The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 415ff. ISBN 90-5183-308-3.
  10. ^ Schrijver, Peter (2016). "17. Ancillary study: Sound Change, the Italo-Celtic Linguistic Unity, and the Italian Homeland of Celtic". In Koch, John T.; Cunliffe, Barry (eds.). Celtic from the West 3: Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages – Questions of Shared Language. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. pp. 489–502. ISBN 978-1-78570-227-3. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  11. ^ Nils M. Holmer, "A Celtic-Hittite Correspondence", in Ériu 21 (1969): 23–24.
  12. ^ Andrew L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, OUP 1995, p.145, §141.
  13. ^ Michael Weiss, Italo-Celtica: Linguistic and Cultural Points of Contact between Italic and Celtic in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Hempen Verlag 2012

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Jasanoff, Jay, "An Italo-Celtic isogloss: the 3 pl. mediopassive in *-ntro," in D. Q. Adams (ed.), Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp. Volume I (= Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 23) (Washington, D.C., 1997): 146-161.
  • Ivšić, Dubravka. "Italo-Celtic Correspondences in Verb Formation". In: Studia Celto-Slavica 3 (2010): 47–59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54586/IPBD8569.
  • Lehmann, Winfred P. "Frozen Residues and Relative Dating", in Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas, eds. Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C. Polomé. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997. pp. 223–46
  • Lehmann, Winfred P. "Early Celtic among the Indo-European dialects", in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49-50, Issue 1 (1997): 440-54.
  • Nishimura, Kanehiro (2005). "Superlative Suffixes *-ismo- and *-isim̥mo in Sabellian Languages". Glotta. 81: 160–183. JSTOR 40267191.
  • Schmidt, Karl Horst, “Contributions from New Data to the Reconstruction of the Proto-Language”. In: Polomé, Edgar; Winter, Werner, eds. (1992). Reconstructing Languages and Cultures (1st ed.). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 35–62. ISBN 978-3-11-012671-6. OCLC 25009339.
  • Schrijver, Peter (2015). "Pruners and trainers of the Celtic family tree: The rise and development of Celtic in light of language contact". Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth 2011. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. pp. 191–219.

External links

  •   Media related to Italo-Celtic at Wikimedia Commons


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In historical linguistics Italo Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others There is controversy about the causes of these similarities They are usually considered to be innovations likely to have developed after the breakup of the Proto Indo European language It is also possible that some of these are not innovations but shared conservative features i e original Indo European language features which have disappeared in all other language groups What is commonly accepted is that the shared features may usefully be thought of as Italo Celtic forms as they are certainly shared by the two families and are almost certainly not coincidental Italo CelticLinguistic classificationIndo EuropeanItalo CelticSubdivisionsItalic Celtic Ligurian 1 Lusitanian 2 3 4 GlottologNone Contents 1 Interpretations 2 Forms 3 References 3 1 Bibliography 4 Further reading 5 External linksInterpretations EditThe traditional interpretation of the data is that both sub groups of the Indo European language family are generally more closely related to each other than to the other Indo European languages That could imply that they are descended from a common ancestor Proto Italo Celtic which can be partly reconstructed by the comparative method Scholars who believe that Proto Italo Celtic was an identifiable historical language estimate that it was spoken in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE somewhere in South Central Europe That hypothesis fell out of favour after it was re examined by Calvert Watkins in 1966 5 Nevertheless some scholars such as Frederik Kortlandt continued to be interested in the theory 6 In 2002 a paper by Ringe Warnow and Taylor employing computational methods as a supplement to the traditional linguistic subgrouping methodology argued in favour of an Italo Celtic subgroup 7 and in 2007 Kortlandt attempted a reconstruction of a Proto Italo Celtic 8 Emphatic support for an Italo Celtic clade came from Celtologist Peter Schrijver in 1991 9 More recently Schrijver 2016 has argued that Celtic arose in the Italian Peninsula as the first branch of Italo Celtic to split off with areal affinities to Venetic and Sabellian and identified Proto Celtic archaeologically with the Canegrate culture of the Late Bronze Age of Italy c 1300 1100 BC 10 The most common alternative interpretation is that the proximity of Proto Celtic and Proto Italic over a long period could have encouraged the parallel development of what were already quite separate languages as areal features within a Sprachbund As Watkins 1966 puts it the community of i in Italic and Celtic is attributable to early contact rather than to an original unity The assumed period of language contact could then be later and perhaps continue well into the first millennium BC However if some of the forms are archaic elements of Proto Indo European that were lost in other branches neither model of post PIE relationship must be postulated Italic and especially Celtic also share several distinctive features with the Hittite language an Anatolian language and the Tocharian languages 11 and those features are certainly archaisms Forms EditThe principal Italo Celtic forms are the thematic genitive in i dominus domini Both in Italic Popliosio Valesiosio Lapis Satricanus and in Celtic Lepontic oiso Celtiberian o traces of the osyo genitive of Proto Indo European PIE have also been discovered which might indicate that the spread of the i genitive occurred in the two groups independently or by areal diffusion The i genitive has been compared to the so called Cvi formation in Sanskrit but that too is probably a comparatively late development The phenomenon is probably related to the feminine long i stems and the Luwian i mutation the formation of superlatives with reflexes of the PIE suffix ism mo Latin fortis fortissimus strong strongest Old Irish sen sinem old oldest Oscan mais maimas more most where branches outside Italic and Celtic derive superlatives with reflexes of PIE isto instead Sanskrit urus variṣṭhas broad broadest Ancient Greek kalos kallistos beautiful fairest Old Norse raudr raudastr red reddest as well as of course English est the a subjunctive Both Italic and Celtic have a subjunctive descended from an earlier optative in a Such an optative is not known from other languages but the suffix occurs in Balto Slavic and Tocharian past tense formations and possibly in Hittite ahh the collapsing of the PIE aorist and perfect into a single past tense In both groups this is a relatively late development of the proto languages possibly dating to the time of Italo Celtic language contact the assimilation of p to a following kʷ 12 This development obviously predates the Celtic loss of p PIE pekʷ cook Latin coquere Welsh pobi Welsh p is from Proto Celtic kʷ PIE penkʷe five Latin quinque Old Irish coic Welsh pump PIE perkʷu oak Latin quercus Goidelic ethnonym Querni in northwest Hispania QuerquerniA number of other similarities continue to be pointed out and debated 13 The r passive mediopassive voice was initially thought to be an innovation restricted to Italo Celtic until it was found to be a retained archaism shared with Hittite Tocharian and possibly the Phrygian language References Edit Kruta 1991 pp 54 55 Tamburelli Marco Brasca Lissander 2018 06 01 Revisiting the classification of Gallo Italic a dialectometric approach Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 33 2 442 455 doi 10 1093 llc fqx041 ISSN 2055 7671 Prosper Blanca Maria Villar Francisco 2009 NUEVA INSCRIPCIoN LUSITANA PROCEDENTE DE PORTALEGRE EMERITA Revista de Linguistica y Filologia Clasica EM LXXVII 1 1 32 Retrieved 11 June 2012 Villar Francisco 2000 Indoeuropeos y no indoeuropeos en la Hispania Prerromana Indo Europeans and non Indo Europeans in Pre Roman Hispania in Spanish 1st ed Salamanca Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ISBN 84 7800 968 X Retrieved 22 September 2014 via Google Books Watkins Calvert Italo Celtic Revisited In Birnbaum Henrik Puhvel Jaan eds 1966 Ancient Indo European dialects Berkeley University of California Press pp 29 50 OCLC 716409 Kortlandt Frederik H H More Evidence for Italo Celtic in Eriu 32 1981 1 22 Ringe Don Warnow Tandy Taylor Ann March 2002 Indo European and Computational Cladistics PDF Transactions of the Philological Society 100 1 59 129 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 139 6014 doi 10 1111 1467 968X 00091 Retrieved May 12 2019 Kortlandt Frederik H H Italo Celtic Origins and Prehistoric Development of the Irish Language Leiden Studies in Indo European Vol 14 Rodopi 2007 ISBN 978 90 420 2177 8 Schrijver Peter 1991 V E Italo Celtic The Development of the Laryngeals and Notes on Relative Chronology The Reflexes of the Proto Indo European Laryngeals in Latin Amsterdam Rodopi pp 415ff ISBN 90 5183 308 3 Schrijver Peter 2016 17 Ancillary study Sound Change the Italo Celtic Linguistic Unity and the Italian Homeland of Celtic In Koch John T Cunliffe Barry eds Celtic from the West 3 Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages Questions of Shared Language Oxford UK Oxbow Books pp 489 502 ISBN 978 1 78570 227 3 Retrieved May 12 2019 Nils M Holmer A Celtic Hittite Correspondence in Eriu 21 1969 23 24 Andrew L Sihler New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin OUP 1995 p 145 141 Michael Weiss Italo Celtica Linguistic and Cultural Points of Contact between Italic and Celtic in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo European Conference Hempen Verlag 2012 Bibliography Edit Kruta Venceslas 1991 The Celts Thames amp Hudson Further reading EditJasanoff Jay An Italo Celtic isogloss the 3 pl mediopassive in ntro in D Q Adams ed Festschrift for Eric P Hamp Volume I Journal of Indo European Studies Monograph 23 Washington D C 1997 146 161 Ivsic Dubravka Italo Celtic Correspondences in Verb Formation In Studia Celto Slavica 3 2010 47 59 DOI https doi org 10 54586 IPBD8569 Lehmann Winfred P Frozen Residues and Relative Dating in Varia on the Indo European Past Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas eds Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C Polome Washington D C Institute for the Study of Man 1997 pp 223 46 Lehmann Winfred P Early Celtic among the Indo European dialects in Zeitschrift fur celtische Philologie 49 50 Issue 1 1997 440 54 Nishimura Kanehiro 2005 Superlative Suffixes ismo and isim mo in Sabellian Languages Glotta 81 160 183 JSTOR 40267191 Schmidt Karl Horst Contributions from New Data to the Reconstruction of the Proto Language In Polome Edgar Winter Werner eds 1992 Reconstructing Languages and Cultures 1st ed Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter pp 35 62 ISBN 978 3 11 012671 6 OCLC 25009339 Schrijver Peter 2015 Pruners and trainers of the Celtic family tree The rise and development of Celtic in light of language contact Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies Maynooth 2011 Dublin Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies pp 191 219 External links Edit Media related to Italo Celtic at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Italo Celtic amp oldid 1132194659, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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