Journal of Celtic Linguistics

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Celtic Linguistics publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the linguistics of the Celtic languages, modern, medieval and ancient, with particular emphasis on synchronic studies, while not excluding diachronic and comparative-historical work.

This journal is of great interest to students of languages and Celtic studies, as well as general public interested in the linguistic progression within Celtic languages and linguistic history.

The editor is Lecturer in the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth University, and is supported by an editorial board including representatives from Oxford and Cambridge universities, and from universities across Europe and North America.

Papers are invited in English, French or German on all fields/‘levels’ of analysis; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics; formal or functional, cross-language typological or language-internal, dialectological or sociolinguistic, any theoretical paradigm.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland and Brittonic Pictish

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Simon

• The Old Irish Article

  Citation: 3

  Authors: David M.

• Interarticulatory Timing and Celtic Mutations

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Joseph F.

• Neo-Speakers of Endangered Languages: Theorizing Failure to Learn the Language properly as Creative post-Vernacularity

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Steve

• Preocclusion in Manx

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Christopher

• The South-West of Ancient Hispania in its Linguistic and Epigraphic Context

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Juan Luis

• The Syntax of Absolute Verbal Forms in Early Welsh Poetry: A Survey

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Simon

• Some Observations on the Syntax of the Welsh <i>Gesta Romanorum</i>

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Jana

• The etymology of <i> Britain</i>

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Bernard

• English Loanwords in the Irish of Iorras Aithneach – New Vowels in a Government and Licensing Analysis

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Krzysztof