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From: cloutier@cpp.pha.pa.us (Diane Cloutier)
Subject: Welsh Verb Evolution
Message-ID: <D5rtKH.9wp@cpp.pha.pa.us>
Summary: Seeking sources for Brythonic paradigms
Organization: Critical Path Project
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 03:26:39 GMT
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I am looking for sources on the early development of the Old Welsh verb.
Specifically: what reconstructions have been made of the verb paradigms
of Classical Brythonic or common P-Celtic, ca. 500 B.C.-5-00 A.D., that
evolved into the familiar verb forms of Old Welsh/Cornish/Breton?

The sources that I've seen are quick with reconstructions of P-Celtic
noun paradigms, but chary with reconstructions of the verb. Have I
missed someone? Given that historical linguists have been polishing
Proto-Indo-European verb forms for more than a century, I'd expect
somebody would have done work on Proto-Celtic and Proto-Brythonic.

I'd appreciate referrals to books and journal articles, established
authroities or current researchers. Please post or email me (cloutier@
cpp.pha.pa.us -- my wife's address). Thank you, a diolch i chwi.

- Tony West
