PROFESSOR ANDERS AHLQVIST

PhD (Edin.); Docent (Hels.); Fellow of Societas Scientiarum Fennica;
Professor Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Sir Warwick Fairfax Professor of Celtic Studies

Research Interests

• Historical syntax and morphology, especially of the older Celtic languages, like Old and Middle Irish.
• The history of linguistics, particularly in Medieval Europe.
• The sociolinguistics of Celtic and other Western European languages.

Some Recent Publications

• 2000 The ‘Native Irish Grammarian’ Revisited, Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of The First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, edited by Geraint Evans, Bernard Martin and Jonathan Wooding, Sydney: Centre for Celtic Studies 81–90.
• 2001 L’Histoire de la terminologie linguistique irlandaise, Métalangage et terminologie linguistique, edited by Bernard Colombat and Marie Savelli, Louvain: Peeters 349–357.
• 2002a Språk som språk, Att förstå inom humaniora, edited by René Gothoni, Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica 141–150.
• 2002b Téamaí agus Coincheapa, Téada Dúchais: Aistí in Ómós don Ollamh Breandán Ó Madagáin, edited by Máirtín Ó Briain and Pádraig Ó Héalaí, Inverin: Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1–7.
• 2002c Cleft Sentences in Irish and Other Languages, The Celtic Roots of English, edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Pitkänen, Joensuu: Yliopistopaino 271–281.
• 2003 Old Irish masu ‘if is’ and Similar Forms, Language in Time and Space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, edited by Brigitte L.M. Bauer and Georges-Jean Pinault, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter 13–17.
• 2005a Is acher in gaíth … úa Lothlind, Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford = CSANA Yearbook 3–4, edited by Joseph F. Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones, Dublin: Four Courts Press 19–27.
• 2005b Irish Terms for ‘Gender’, Flores Grammaticæ, Essays in Memory of Vivien Law, edited by Nicola McLelland and Andrew Linn, Münster: Nodus Publikationen 43–48.
• 2005c Forms of Address in Irish and Swedish, Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness, edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins 235–244.
• 2006 A Syntactic Similarity between Finnish and Irish, A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday, edited by Mickael Suominen, Antti Arppe. Anu Airola, Orvokki Heinämäki, Matti Miestamo, Urho Määttä, Jussi Niemi, Kari Pitkänen and Kaius Sinnemäki, Turku-Åbo: The Linguistic Association of Finland 261–268.
• 2010a Editor, together with Pamela O’Neill, Australian Celtic Journal 9, ix + 121 pp.
• 2010b Early English and Celtic, Australian Celtic Journal 9, 43–73.
• 2010c Times of Day, Bile ós Chrannaibh: A Festschrift for William Gillies, edited by Wilson McLeod, Abigail Burnyeat, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Thomas Owen Clancy and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, Brig o’ Turk: Clann Tuirc 1–4.
• 2011 Editor, with Pamela O’Neill, Language and Power in the Celtic World, Papers from the Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic, 30 September–2 October 2010, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 10, i–ix; 1–426 pp.
• 2012a Editor, together with Pamela O’Neill, Australian Celtic Journal 10, 171 pp.
• 2012b Three Otago Place-Names of Celtic (?) Origin, Australian Celtic Journal 10, 85–105.
• For a complete list of publications, click here.