Joseph F Eska

Biographic Data

ID156508
NAMEJoseph F Eska
GIVEN NAMESJoseph F
FAMILY NAMEEska
SIGNATUREESKA J F
AFFILIATIONSVirginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
ORCID0000-0001-8190-1967
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR45
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Celtic in Greek characters and implications for Greek and Celtic phonology

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEIndogermanische Forschungen2024

    This paper examines the use of the characters t h eta ⟨θ⟩ and k h i ⟨χ⟩ in Transalpine Celtic inscriptions engraved in Greek characters. Since /t h / and /k h /, respectively, were not needed for Celtic, it is conventionally presumed that these characters were repurposed in these inscriptions, t h eta ⟨θ⟩ as the tau Gallicum phoneme and k h i ⟨χ⟩ as the allophone [x] of the phoneme /k/ before /t/. It is argued that, in fact, the aspirated voicele…

  • Grounding Celtic diachronic phonology II

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEDie Sprache2023

    This paper continues a series of treatments of sound changes in the Celtic languages that have not been satisfactorily or fully explained to date. Sound changes that occurred in proto-Brittonic and early Welsh are treated: (3) the shift of */j/ > /ð/ / ˈVr_V in proto-Brittonic; (4) the shift of the group *-/nthL/- > -/θL/- in Old Welsh; (5) the evolution of the group */lthr/ in Welsh

  • The Late Cornish Syntax of William Bodinar

    Joseph F Eska, Benjamin BruchARTICLEEtudes Celtiques2021

    La lettre bilingue anglais-cornique tardif écrite par William Bodinar à l’Hon. Daines Barrington, le 3 Juillet 1776, est le dernier témoignage connu du cornique écrit traditionnel, avant la mort de cette langue. P. A. S. Pool et O. J. Padel, dans l’édition la plus récente de cette lettre en 1976, affirment que Bodinar, ‘s’il n’était pas un native speaker du cornique, ... en était sans doute le dernier écrivain natif’ et, pour caractériser son cor…

  • Grounding Celtic diachronic phonology I

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEDie Sprache2021

    This paper initiates a series of treatments of sound changes in the Celtic languages that have not been satisfactorily or fully explained to date. After providing an orientation to method, two sound changes that occurred in the Brittonic languages are treated: (1) the shift of *[x] > /j/ / _th; and (2) the shift of */j/ > /ð/ / ˈ{e i}._V

  • Interarticulatory Timing and Celtic Mutations

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEJournal of Celtic Linguistics2020

    After providing an analysis of Celtic phonology as per the approach to phonology known as Laryngeal Realism, this paper addresses the differing realizations of the two mutations common to Goidelic and Brittonic, the first lenition and nasalization. It is proposed that differences in interarticulatory timing between consecutive segments led to the attested differing realizations of these mutations. Some attention is also paid to the differing real…

  • In defence of KuiTos leKaTos

    Joseph F Eska, Charlene M EskaARTICLEEtudes Celtiques2017

    M. J. Estaran Tolosa proposes in Études celtiques, XLI-2015, p. 95-109, that the form traditionally read as KuiTos in the inscription of S. Bernardino di Briona (Novara) is, instead, to be read as KuiToi and forms a syntagm with the preceding form TanoTaliKnoi. This paper argues that the final character of this form is unlike any other token of in the inscription, and, indeed, it is precisely the inverse image of a token of in l. A1 of the inscri…

  • Teuoχ Tonioṇ! And related matters

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEHistorical Linguistics2015

  • The Linguistic Position of Lepontic

    Open AccessJoseph F EskaARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations (1998)

  • The Ancient Languages of Europe

    Open AccessJames P T Clackson, Rex E Wallace et al.BOOKAncient Languages of Europe2008

    This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, m…

  • Bergin’s Rule

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEDiachronica2007

    Bergin’s Rule constructions, whereby verbs in Old Irish occur in other than normal clause-initial position and with ‘conjunct’ flexion in simplex verbs and ‘prototonic’ stress in compound verbs, has traditionally been viewed as evidence for the language’s prehistoric clausal configuration, usually considered to be SOV or, more recently, V2. Others view the construction as entirely artificial, i.e., as not reflecting any historical reality, perhap…

  • Patrick Sims-Williams. 2006. Ancient Celtic place-names in Europe and Asia Minor

    Joseph F EskaARTICLEFolia Linguistica Historica2007

  • Letters to Language

    Open AccessMartin Haspelmath, Alan S Kaye et al.ARTICLELanguage2005

    Letters to Language Martin Haspelmath, Alan S. Kaye, Dr. Peter Forster, Joseph F. Eska, Don Ringe, Sam Epstein, Norbert Hornstein, and Mira Ariel [Correction] Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are incl…

  • The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain

    Joseph F EskaARTICLESpeculum2005

  • Bilingualism and the Latin Language (review)

    Open AccessJoseph F EskaARTICLELanguage2004

    Reviewed by: Bilingualism and the Latin language by J. N. Adams Joseph F. Eska Bilingualism and the Latin language. By J. N. Adams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 836. ISBN 0521817714. $140 (Hb). The three principal topics of this fascinating volume are code-switching and its relationship to linguistic interference and borrowing, language contact as a determinant of linguistic change in the languages in contact, and the …

  • Bilingualism in Ancient Society

    Open AccessJoseph F EskaARTICLELanguage2004

    Reviewed by: Bilingualism in ancient society: Language contact and the written word ed. by J. N. Adams, Mark Janse, and Simon Swain Joseph F. Eska Bilingualism in ancient society: Language contact and the written word. Ed. by J. N. Adams, Mark Janse, and Simon Swain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 483. ISBN 0199245061. $98 (Hb). There is an immense amount of evidence that pertains to bilingualism in the ancient and early medieval w…

  • Recent Work in Computational Linguistic Phylogeny

    Open AccessJoseph F Eska, Don Ringe et al.ARTICLELanguage2004Cited by: 2

    A number of recent attempts by nonlinguists to reconstruct linguistic evolutionary trees have made news. Reconstructions of the phylogeny of the Indo-European (IE) family of languages are especially well represented; well-known examples include Rexová et al. 2003, Gray & Atkinson 2003—which is discussed by Searls (2003) and briefly reported in U.S. news & world report (10 December 2003)—and Forster & Toth 2003, which also generated considerable a…

  • Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide

    Joseph F Eska, Jadranka GvozdanovicARTICLELanguage2000

    The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and d…

  • Source Book for Linguistics

    Joseph F Eska, William Cowan et al.ARTICLELanguage2000

    This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Raku an’s Source Book for Linguistics . In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on Grammatical and Lexical Change. In addition, an index of the 93 languages and dialects represented in the book has been added, as well as a revised bibliograp…

  • Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

    Joseph F Eska, Oswald J L SzemerenyiARTICLELanguage2000

    1: INTRODUCTION 2: LANGUAGE IN CHANGE 3: TASKS OF INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS 4: PHONOLOGY 5: MORPHOPHONOLOGY 6: PREHISTORY OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM 7: MORPHOLOGY - NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES 8: MORPHOLOGY - PRONOUNS AND NUMERALS 9: MORPHOLOGY - VERBS REFERENCES INDEX CONTRIBUTORS

  • Sentential Complementation in a Functional Grammar of Irish

    Joseph F Eska, Inge GeneeARTICLELanguage2000

  • Zeitschrift fur celtische Philologie; Band 49-50

    Joseph F Eska, Karl Horst Schmidt et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

  • The Origin and Diversification of Language

    Joseph F Eska, Nina G Jablonski et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

  • Universals of Sound Change in Nasalization

    Joseph F Eska, John HajekARTICLELanguage1999

  • Projects in Linguistics

    Joseph F Eska, Alison Wray et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

  • Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe

    Joseph F Eska, Anna SiewierskaARTICLELanguage1999