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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am happy to announce the recent publication of a
new book:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
size=2>Juan Luis García Alonso (ed.)</FONT> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Celtic
and Other Languages in Ancient Europe</SPAN></I><SPAN>, Salamanca: Ediciones
Universidad de Salamanca, 2008. ISBN:
978-84-7800-335-8.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>Although the most obvious source for our knowledge of Ancient Celtic
languages is the scanty native inscriptions written in any language or dialect
of the family, this approach has also its shortcomings, since it covers mainly
the areas of the continent closer to the Mediterranean, whereas huge regions of
Central and Northern Europe remain in the dark. </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>Despite the different problems that they entail, proper names become a
necessary complement in this context. In many cases, for many areas, the extant
personal, divine, ethnic or geographical names constitute our only and meagre
linguistic information. </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>It has therefore
become apparent that the information which could be obtained from ancient place
names is invaluable, once we make sure of how to deal with the thorny question
of establishing the right connections between them and the languages spoken in
their respective areas at different times. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">A
first approach to this idea has been undertaken since at least 1999 by the group
of scholars who contribute to the present volume. In previous meetings we have
studied the </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Geography</SPAN></I><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> of Claudius Ptolemy.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS OF THIS GROUP. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">·
David Parsons and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds.) </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Ptolemy:
Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-names of
Europe</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">,
Aberystwyth, 2000. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>·
Javier de Hoz, Eugenio R. Luján and Patrick Sims-Williams (eds.), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New Approaches to Celtic Place Names in
Ptolemy's Geography</I>, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Madrid</st1:place></st1:State>, 2005.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT size=2><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">SALAMANCA</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> MEETING
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>J. L. García Alonso, from the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Salamanca</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, organized a workshop in
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Salamanca</st1:place></st1:City> in May
2006 (21st-23rd) “Celtic and Neighbouring Languages across Ancient Europe”. The
present book is the result of it. There are papers from the following
authors</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>: Javier de Hoz
Bravo, from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Patrick Sims-Williams, from
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Blanca María Prósper Pérez, from the
Universidad de Salamanca, Eugenio Luján Martínez, from the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Juan Luis García Alonso, from the Universidad de
Salamanca, Carlos Jordán Cólera, from the Universidad de Zaragoza, P.Y. Lambert,
from the University of La Sorbonne, in Paris, Alexander Falileyev, from the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Lauran Toorians, from Loon op Zand, in
Holland, Peter Schrijver, from the University of Utrecht, Aswin Gohil, from the
University of Bonn, Paolo Pocetti, from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,
and Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, from the University of the Basque Country.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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