The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain Phonology and Chronology, c. 400-1200 [Paperback]

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• First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.
  
• Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions.
  
• Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions.

Preface.

Part I: Introduction.

1.1 The Corpus.

1.2 The Reading of the Inscriptions.

1.31 Previous Linguistic Work on the Inscriptions.

1.4 The Chronology of the Inscription: The Problem.

Part II: British Phonology (1-98).

Part III: British Chronology.

3.1 Construction of Table 3.1.

3.2 Construction of Table 3.2.

3.3 New Order of Columns.

3.4 Comparison of Linguistic and Epigraphic Relative Dating: Table 3.3.

3.5 Conflicting Epigraphic and linguistic Dates: Table 5.2.

3.6 Absolute Dating.

3.7 Summary of Absolute Dating From Non-inscriptional Sources.

3.8 Synthesis of Epigraphic and Linguistic Dates.

Part IV: Irish Phonology (1-43).

Part V: Irish Chronology.

5.1 Construction of Table 5.1.

5.2 Problems in Table 5.1.

5.3 Periodization of the Irish or Possible Irish Names: Table 5.2.

5.4 Comparison of Linguistic and Epigraphic Relativl£é