Manx

Cressy Dodd: An Unrecognised Manx Song Collector

by Stephen Miller

Father Richard Henebry and John Strachan as Collectors

by Stephen Miller

“Floutyn er Vooinjer Ghelby”

by Stephen Miller

“On the Manx Quest.” Sophia Morrison and Josephine Kermode

by Stephen Miller

“Phillie the Desert.” Philip Caine of Rensault, East Baldwin

by Stephen Miller

“The Evils of holding Ill-Veries.” Carval Singing in the Isle of Man

by Stephen Miller

“Tommy the Mate.” A Note on Thomas Crellin

by Stephen Miller

“Written down by Miss Cressie Dodd & myself.” Cressy Dodd as Collector

by Stephen Miller

A Review of the Principles of Creole and Hybridized Languages

by Sophie Marta

Submitted as part of the assessment for "Reclaiming Languages - A Kaurna Case Study"

Department of Linguistics
The University of Adelaide
2011

This paper attempts to make plain the principles of Creole and Hybridized languages, so that further research may be... more This paper attempts to make plain the principles of Creole and Hybridized languages, so that further research may be conducted to investigate linguistic phenomena such as phono-semantic matching, relexification and morpho-phonological divergence.

Mind Your P’s and Q’s: Revisiting the Insular Celtic hypothesis through working towards an original phonetic reconstruction of Insular Celtic

by Rachel Carpenter

Senior Thesis in Linguistics at Swarthmore College.
This is the revised version of the thesis, following defenses and honors defenses.

Mac, mac, mac, mab, mab, mab- all mean ‘son’, inis, innis, hinjey, enez, ynys, enys - all mean ‘island.’ Anyone can... more Mac, mac, mac, mab, mab, mab- all mean ‘son’, inis, innis, hinjey, enez, ynys, enys - all mean ‘island.’ Anyone can see the similarities within these two cognate sets from orthographic similarity alone. This is because Irish, Scottish, Manx, Breton, Welsh, and Cornish are related. As the six remaining Celtic languages, they unsurprisingly share similarities in their phonetics, phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax. However, the exact relationship between these languages and their predecessors has long been disputed in Celtic linguistics. Even today, the battle continues between two firmly-entrenched camps of scholars- those who favor the traditional P-Celtic and Q-Celtic divisions of the Celtic family tree, and those who support the unification of the Brythonic and Goidelic branches of the tree under Insular Celtic, with this latter idea being the Insular Celtic hypothesis. While much reconstructive work has been done, and much evidence has been brought forth, both for and against the existence of Insular Celtic, no one scholar has attempted a phonetic reconstruction of this hypothesized proto-language from its six modern descendents. In the pages that follow, I will introduce you to the Celtic languages; explore the controversy surrounding the structure of the Celtic family tree; and present a partial phonetic reconstruction of Insular Celtic through the application of the comparative method as outlined by Lyle Campbell (2006) to self-collected data from the summers of 2009 and 2010 in my efforts to offer you a novel perspective on an on-going debate in the field of historical Celtic linguistics.

Consonant (Dis)/Harmony: A comparative study of the forces of assimilation and dissimilation in Tuvan suffix alternations and Manx initial mutations.

by Rachel Carpenter

The Manx Language: Dead or Alive?

by Gordon Hemsley

Manx language; yn Gaelg or yn Gailck; gv

University of Vermont
Spring 2009
ANTH 028: Linguistic Anthropology
Instructor: Emily W. Manetta, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)