Peter Schrijver

Peter Schrijver (Dutch: [ˈsxrɛivər]; born 1963 in Delft), is a Dutch linguist and a professor of Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Continental Celtic) at Utrecht University and a researcher of ancient Indo-European linguistics. He worked previously at Leiden University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[1]

For the 17th-century historian, see Petrus Scriverius.

He has published four books and a large number of articles on the history and linguistics of Indo-European languages, particularly the description, reconstruction and syntax of the Celtic languages, and lately researching language change and language contact in ancient Europe.[1]

Works

Books

• 1991: The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin. Doctoral dissertation. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 2. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-5183-308-9
• 1995: Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 90-5183-820-4.
• 1997: Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles. Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland. ISBN 0-901519-59-6.
• 2014: Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages. New York & Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-35548-3.

Edited volume

• 2004: with Peter-Arnold Mumm (eds.), Sprachtod und Sprachgeburt. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen.

Articles and book chapters

• 1990: “Latin festīnāre, Welsh brys”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 51: 243–247.
• 1991: “The development of primitive Irish *aN before voiced stop”, Ériu 42: 13–25.
• 1992: “The development of PIE *sk- in British”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 39: 1–15.
• 1993:
  • “On the development of vowels before tautosyllabic nasals in Primitive Irish”, Ériu 44: 33–52.
  • “Varia IV. OIr. dëec, dëac”, Ériu 44: 181–184.
• 1994: “The Celtic adverbs for ‘against’ and ‘with’ and the early apocope of *-i”, Ériu 45: 151–189.
• 1996: “OIr. gor ‘pious, dutiful’: meaning and etymology”, Ériu 47: 193–204.
• 1997: “Animal, vegetable and mineral: Some western European substratum words”, in Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, ed. Alexander Lubotsky. Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, pp. 293–316.
• 1998: “The British word for ‘fox’ and its Indo-European origins”, JIES 26: 421–434.
• 1999:
  • “Vedic gr̥bhṇā́ti, gr̥bhāyáti and the semantics of *ye- derivatives of nasal presents”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 59: 115–162.
  • “Vowel rounding by Primitive Irish labiovelars”, Ériu 50: 133–137.
  • “On henbane and early European narcotics”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 51: 17–45.
  • “The Celtic contribution to the development of the North Sea Germanic vowel system, with special reference to Coastal Dutch”, NOWELE 35: 3–47.
• 2001: “Lost languages in Northern Europe”, in Early Contacts Between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations, eds. C. Carpelan, A. Parpola & P. Koskikallio. Helsinki: Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne: 417–425.
• 2002: “The Rise and Fall of British Latin: Evidence from English and Brittonic”, in The Celtic Roots of English, eds. Markkuu Filppula, Juhani Klemola, & Heli Pitkänen. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Humanities, pp. 87–110.
• 2003:
  • “Athematic i-presents: the Italic and Celtic evidence”, Incontri Linguistici 26: 59–86.
  • “The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and etymology of PIE *k⁽ʷ⁾sweibʰ-”, Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell. Aberystwyth: 1–23.
• 2004:
  • “Indo-European *smer- in Greek and Celtic”, in Indo-European perspectives: Studies in honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, ed. J. Penney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 292–299.
  • “Apes, dwarfs, rivers and Indo-European Internal Derivation”, in Per aspera ad asteriscos: Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen sexagenarii Idibus Martiis anno MMIV, eds. Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson, & Thomas Olander. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, pp. 507–511.
  • “Der Tod des Festlandkeltischen und die Geburt des Französischen, Niederländischen und Hochdeutschen”, in Sprachtod und Sprachgeburt, eds. Peter Schrijver & Peter-Arnold Mumm. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen, pp. 1–20.
• 2005: “Early Celtic diphthongization and the Celtic-Latin interface”, in New Approaches to Celtic Placenames in Ptolemy’s Geography, eds. J. de Hoz, R.L. Luján & Patrick Sims-Williams. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 55–67.
• 2007:
  • “Some common developments of Continental and Insular Celtic”, in Gaulois et celtique continental, eds. Pierre-Yves Lambert & Georges-Jean Pinault. Geneva: Droz, 357–371.
  • “What Britons spoke around 400 AD”, in Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. N. J. Higham. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007, pp. 165–71.
• 2009: “Celtic influence on Old English: Phonological and phonetic evidence”, English Language and Linguistics 13, no. 2 (2009): 193–211.
• 2011: Brythonic Celtic—Britannisches Keltisch: From Medieval British to Modern Breton, ed. Elmar Ternes. Bremen: Hempen Verlag.
  • “Old British”, 1–85.
  • “Middle Breton”, 358–429.
• 2015:
  • “Pruners and trainers of the Celtic family tree: The rise and development of Celtic in the light of language contact”, in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies Maynooth 2011. Eds. Liam Breatnach, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Damian McManus, & Katherine Simms. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015, pp. 191–219.
  • “Recognizing prehistoric sound change caused by language contact: The rise of Irish (c. 100–600 AD)”. Handout from the workshop ‘Managing multilingualism: Contact, attitudes and planning in historical contexts’ at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University, 2–5 September 2015.

Reviews

• 2003: Review of UCLA Indo-European Studies Volume 1, edited by Brent Vine & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Kratylos 48: 89–93.
• 2006: Review of Veni Vidi Vici: Die Vorgeschichte des lateinischen Perfektsystems, by Gerhard Meiser, Kratylos 51: 46–64.

References

1. Curriculum Vitae, in Keltisch en de buren: 9000 jaar taalcontact, ("Celtic and their Neighbours: 9000 years of language contact") University of Utrecht, March 2007, page 29 (in Dutch).