Paul Pezron Antiquite de la nation et de la langue des Celtes  Edward Lhuyd Archaeologia Britannica  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Collectanea etymologica: illustrationi linguarum veteris Celticae  Rowland Jones The Origin of Language and Nations  John Cleland The Way to Things by Words  James Parsons Remains of Japhet  Charles Vallancey A Grammar of the Iberno-Celtic, or Irish Language  Edward Davies Celtic Researches  James Cowles Prichard The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations [1831 William Betham The Gael and Cymbri  Adolphe Pictet De l'affinite des langues celtiques avec le Sanscrit  Franz Bopp Die celtischen Sprachen  Lachlan Maclean The History of the Celtic Language  William Frederic Edwards Recherches sur les langues celtiques .
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Celtic Linguistics 1700 - 1850 is a set of reprinted texts showing the growth of this subject during a key period in its history. Setting off from the antiquarian search for origins during the Renaissance, the texts trace the development and refinement of the subject until the introduction of the methods of comparative philology in the mid-nineteenth century. As the source of many modern popular conceptions of Celtic languages, the texts are of current as well as historical relevance. In his introduction, Davis questions the traditional history of the field, which dismisses all work previous to Zeuss (1853) as either 'lunatic' or 'ahead of its time'. Instead, the texts are shown to be products of their respective cultural and discursive contexts, making sense in their original frame of reference, Perzon, Lhuyd and Leibniz continue the antiquarian search for historical foudations. Jones, Cleland, Parsons and Davies construct Celtic as an original language and resource for etymologies, in the wake of the Ossian controversy. Vallancy, Botham and Maclean are concerned with identifying source languges for Celtic, and cultural prestige derived from this. Parsons, Pietet, Bopp and Edwards concentrate more narrowly on the grammar of Celtic languages and the demonstration of relationships with other languages. The set will be of great value not only to linguists and Celticists, but also as a reference for those interested in language and culture in eighteenth and nineteeneth century Europe. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780415204279 20160527