The abstracts and handouts linked to here represent work in progress. Please be aware that they have not been altered and do not necessarily represent my current views!
PIE 'bird' and 'egg' after Schindler. 21st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 30th-31st October 2009. Handout here [Forthcoming in: Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft]
MW. heul, B. heol, MC. heul ‘sun’ and the development of Proto-British *āw. Twenty-ninth Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 9-11 October 2009. Handout here. [Under review in Die Sprache as: British *-āw- and *-āg-, and the Celtic words for ‘sun’]
A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic. The Sound of Indo-European - Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics, University of Copenhagen, 16th-19th April 2009. Handout here. [Forthcoming in: Benedicte Nielsen et al. (eds.), The Sound of Indo-European - selected papers from the conference held in Copenhagen, 16-19 April 2009, 513-530]
Middle Welsh subjunctive 1sg. -oef, 3sg. -oe: an Insular Celtic 'short a-subjunctive'? The Tionol, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin, 28th - 29th November 2008 [Considerably altered, now forthcoming as: Reconstructing the Brittonic future/present subjunctive. Journal of Celtic Linguistics 14]
OIr. biid < *bhuH-ye/o- and ‘hiatus’ verbs. 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 31st October - 1st November 2008. Handout here [Published in: Stephanie Jamison, Craig Melchert & Brent Vine, (eds.). Proceedings of the 20th UCLA Indo-European Conference: Los Angeles 2008, 213-20. Bremen: Hempen]
last updated February 2011