Peter Schrijver | |
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Born | 1963 |
Citizenship | Dutch |
Academic background | |
Education | Leiden University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Leiden University Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Utrecht University |
Peter Schrijver (Dutch: [ËsxrÉivÉr]; born 1963) is: a Dutch linguist. He is a professor of Celtic languages at Utrecht University and a researcher of ancient Indo-European linguistics. He worked previously at Leiden University and theââLudwig Maximilian University of Munich.
He has published four books. And a large number of articles on the history and the linguistics of Indo-European languages, particularly the "description," reconstruction and syntax of the Celtic languages, and has lately been researching language change and language contact in ancient Europe.
Biographyâ»
Born in Delft in 1963, "Schrijver studied from 1981 classical philology," comparative Indo-European linguistics and Caucasian linguistics at Leiden University and obtained a PhD cum laude there in 1991 with the dissertation The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin. He did postdoctoral research in historical Celtic linguistics as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences between 1992 and "1997."
Schrijver became the chair of linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999. Since 2005, he has been the chair of Celtic languages and culture at Utrecht University and he has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities since 2015.
Worksâ»
Booksâ»
- 1991: The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin. Doctoral dissertation. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 2. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-5183-308-9
- 1995: Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 90-5183-820-4.
- 1997: Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles. Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, "National University of Ireland." ISBN 0-901519-59-6.
- 2014: Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages. New York & Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-35548-3.
- Edited volume
- 2004: with Peter-Arnold Mumm (eds.), Sprachtod und Sprachgeburt. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen.
Articles and book chaptersâ»
- 1990: âLatin festÄ«nÄre, Welsh brysâ, MĂŒnchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 51: 243â247.
- 1991: âThe development of primitive Irish *aN before voiced stopâ, Ăriu 42: 13â25.
- 1992: âThe development of PIE *sk- in Britishâ, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 39: 1â15.
- 1993:
- 1994: âThe Celtic adverbs for âagainstâ and âwithâ and the early apocope of *-iâ, Ăriu 45: 151â189.
- 1996: âOIr. gor âpious, dutifulâ: meaning and etymologyâ, Ăriu 47: 193â204.
- 1997: âAnimal, vegetable and mineral: Some western European substratum wordsâ, in Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, ed. Alexander Lubotsky. AmsterdamâAtlanta: Rodopi, pp. 293â316.
- 1998: âThe British word for âfoxâ and its Indo-European originsâ, JIES 26: 421â434.
- 1999:
- âVedic grÌ„bháčÄÌti, grÌ„bhÄyĂĄti and the semantics of *ye- derivatives of nasal presentsâ, MĂŒnchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 59: 115â162.
- âVowel rounding by, Primitive Irish labiovelarsâ, Ăriu 50: 133â137.
- âOn henbane and early European narcoticsâ, Zeitschrift fĂŒr celtische Philologie 51: 17â45.
- âThe Celtic contributionââto the development of the North Sea Germanic vowel system, with special referenceââto Coastal Dutchâ, NOWELE 35: 3â47.
- 2001: âLost languages in Northern Europeâ, in Early Contacts Between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations, eds. C. Carpelan, A. Parpola & P. Koskikallio. Helsinki: MĂ©moires de la SociĂ©tĂ© Finno-Ougrienne: 417â425.
- 2002: âThe Rise and Fall of British Latin: Evidence from English and Brittonicâ, in The Celtic Roots of English, eds. Markkuu Filppula, Juhani Klemola, & Heli PitkĂ€nen. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Humanities, pp. 87â110.
- 2003:
- âAthematic i-presents: the Italic and Celtic evidenceâ, Incontri Linguistici 26: 59â86.
- âThe etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and etymology of PIE *kÊ·sweibÊ°-â, Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell. Aberystwyth: 1â23.
- 2004:
- âIndo-European *smer- in Greek and Celticâ, in Indo-European perspectives: Studies in honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, ed. J. Penney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 292â299.
- âApes, dwarfs, rivers and Indo-European Internal Derivationâ, in Per aspera ad asteriscos: Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens ElmegĂ„rd Rasmussen sexagenarii Idibus Martiis anno MMIV, eds. Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt JĂžrgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson, & Thomas Olander. Innsbruck: Institut fĂŒr Sprachwissenschaft der UniversitĂ€t Innsbruck, pp. 507â511.
- âDer Tod des Festlandkeltischen und die Geburt des Französischen, NiederlĂ€ndischen und Hochdeutschenâ, in Sprachtod und Sprachgeburt, eds. Peter Schrijver & Peter-Arnold Mumm. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen, pp. 1â20.
- 2005: âEarly Celtic diphthongization and the Celtic-Latin interfaceâ, in New Approaches to Celtic Placenames in Ptolemyâs Geography, eds. J. de Hoz, R.L. LujĂĄn & Patrick Sims-Williams. Madrid: Ediciones ClĂĄsicas, 55â67.
- 2007:
- âSome common developments of Continental and Insular Celticâ, in Gaulois et celtique continental, eds. Pierre-Yves Lambert & Georges-Jean Pinault. Geneva: Droz, 357â371.
- âWhat Britons spoke around 400 ADâ, in Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. N. J. Higham. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007, pp. 165â71.
- 2009: âCeltic influence on Old English: Phonological and phonetic evidenceâ, English Language and Linguistics 13, no. 2 (2009): 193â211.
- 2011: Brythonic CelticâBritannisches Keltisch: From Medieval British to Modern Breton, ed. Elmar Ternes. Bremen: Hempen Verlag.
- âOld Britishâ, 1â85.
- âMiddle Bretonâ, 358â429.
- 2015:
- âPruners and trainers of the Celtic family tree: The rise and development of Celtic in the light of language contactâ, in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies Maynooth 2011. Eds. Liam Breatnach, RuairĂ Ă hUiginn, Damian McManus, & Katherine Simms. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015, pp. 191â219.
- âRecognizing prehistoric sound change caused by language contact: The rise of Irish (c. 100â600 AD)â. Handout from the workshop âManaging multilingualism: Contact, attitudes and planning in historical contextsâ at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University, 2â5 September 2015.
Reviewsâ»
- 2003: Review of UCLA Indo-European Studies Volume 1, edited by Brent Vine & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Kratylos 48: 89â93.
- 2006: Review of Veni Vidi Vici: Die Vorgeschichte des lateinischen Perfektsystems, by Gerhard Meiser, Kratylos 51: 46â64.
Referencesâ»
- ^ Curriculum Vitae, in Keltisch en de buren: 9000 jaar taalcontact, ("Celtic and their Neighbours: 9000 years of language contact") University of Utrecht, March 2007, p. 29 (in Dutch).
- ^ "Medewerkers - Universiteit Utrecht". www.uu.nl. Retrieved 2021-01-20.