New Book: Celtiberian (fwd)

[Andrew Carnie]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:01:41 +0200
From: Javier Martinez <martinez at eucmos.sim.ucm.es>
Subject: New Book: Celtiberian


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INTRODUCCION AL CELTIBERICO
by Carlos JORDAN COLERA, University of Zaragoza 1998.
With a Prologue by Francisco Villar.

Introduction to the Celtiberian language is the first manual of this
language to appear in the market.  As Francisco Villar writes in the
preface to the book "Its timing is perfect. This book not only will help

the growing community of specialists in Celtiberian but it will also be
useful to anyone who engages in philological or linguistic research on
this language. It will
help our college students in courses of Celtiberian and it will be a
useful tool for historians and researchers on Antiquity of the Iberian
Peninsula... Differences apart, this manual is to Celtiberian language
what La Lange Galoise by P.Y. Lambert is to Gaulish."

The book is divided in four chapters. Chapters I and II exposes the
phonetic-phonological and morphological features of the language.  Using

a comparative framework, the author describes the Indoeuropean, Celtic
and actual Celtiberic features, trying to define those that seem more
certain.
Additionally chapters I and II deal with the celtiberian wrinting
system.  Chapters III and IV entitled "Documents in celtiberian language

and paleohispanic writing system" and "Documents in celtiberian language

and latin alphabet" deal with the typological classification of the
documents (coins, graffitti, tombstones, documents of hospitality and
other documents).  The author proposes an ordering based on increasing
morpho-syntactic complexity. All possible readings and comments on each
of them are given as well.
The book closes with a linguistic features list, a word index and a
copious bibliography.

June 1988   259 pp; many illustrations
 ISBN-84-920431-6-4.
Universidad de Zaragoza