Language Contact Conference
Date(s): 2004
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: Conference programme
Language contact in the place-names of Britain and Ireland; 17th to 18th September 2004, Manx Museum, Douglas; includes summaries of each paper; two pages of double-sided A4, intended as an A5 booklet.
Handouts by the lecturers
George Broderick: Goidelic-Scandinavian language contact in the place-names of the Isle of Man; list of abbreviations and analysis of key place-name elements.
Gillian Fellows-Jensen: Some thoughts on English influence on names in Man with detailed notes, especially on Blackman (Maughold) and Sulby.
Berit Sandnes: Language contact in place-names – terminology with notes on borrowing and adaption.
Iwan Wmffre: Gaulish and Pratanic substrata in Breton and Scottish Place names; map of Brittany with key place-name elements.
Nicolaisen W F H: The change from Pictish to Gaelic in Scotland; 3 x A4 sides including 8 maps of Scottish name elements.
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel: Pre-Celtic, Old Celtic, Brittonic and Goidelic in Ancient Ireland; 5 A4 pages (10 sides) with analysis of origins of Irish place-names.
Correspondence
10 02 2005; Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel to PJD with thanks and questions discussed.
10 02 2005; Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel to PJD with thanks and she will try top modify the sword part of her paper.
14 01 2005; PJD to Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel with comments on draft text; archaeological problem of finding any Celtic invasion of Ireland; issue of her use of BA sword distributions; 2 A4 pages.
20 11 2004; Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel to PJD with request for PJD to look at the archaeological parts of her paper: draft copy of paper enclosed with letter; 24 A4 pages plus two of figures.
07 10 2004; Paul Cavill to conference speakers with ideas and arrangements for conference proceedings.
Peter Davey: Cultural interaction and language contact: the Isle of Man
Reader’s report: Peter Davey Cultural interaction and language contact: the Isle of Man by Professor David Mills (Department of English, University of Liverpool); 4 A4 [pages of typed notes.
Complete draft copy of Cultural interaction and language contact: the Isle of Man annotated by Dr Breesha Maddrell; 16 A4 pages, including draft list of illustrations for Studeyrys Manninagh.
Photocopied extract of cottages in Peel from Talbot (1924); 2 A4 pages.
Photocopied extracts from Monumenta de Insula Mannie, pp 24-25, 28-29 and 72-73; 3 A4 pages.
Administration / Biographical History: The Centre for Manx Studies (University of Liverpool) in collaboration with The Institute of Name-Studies (University of Nottingham) organised and hosted a two-day conference entailed ‘Language contact in the place-names of Britain and Ireland’. The conference took place in the Seminar Room at the Manx Museum on Friday 17th September and on Saturday 18th September 2004, in the Lecture Theatre, Manx Museum. The event was also supported by the Manx Heritage Foundation (Culture Vannin) and Manx National Heritage for the lecture facilities.
The papers given were as follows:
Friday 17th September 2004
Berit Sandnes: Language contact in names – basic terminology,
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel: Pre-Celtic, Old Celtic, Brittonic and Goidelic in Ancient Ireland,
Iwan Wmffre: Gaulish and Pratanic substrata in Breton and Scottish Place names,
W F H Nicolaisen: The change from Pictish to Gaelic in Scotland,
C J Balkwill: Place-names of the Viking age in Suffolk,
Richard Coates: Invisible Britons: the view from toponomastics,
Doreen Waugh: From the ‘banks-gaet’ to the ‘hill-grind’:
Norn and Scots in the place names of Shetland
Paul Cavill: Revisiting Dingsmere.
Saturday 18th September 2004
Peter Davey: Cultural interaction and language contact: the Isle of Man,
George Broderick: Goidelic-Scandinavian language contact in the place-names of the Isle of Man, Gillian Fellows-Jensen: English influence on place-names in Man,
Dónall A Mac Dónaill: ‘Cnoc’, ‘Croc’ and ‘Cronc’ in the Gaelic of Carlingford Lough.
People:
Peter Davey (PJD), Breesha Maddrell, Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Paul Cavill, Professor David Mills.
Readers: C J Balkwill, Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, George Broderick, Richard Coates, Peter Davey, Paul Dingsmere, Dónall A Mac Dónaill, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Berit Sandnes, W F H Nicolaisen, Doreen Waugh and Iwan Wmffre.
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/66
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