A Companion in Linguistics. A Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Edited by Bernadette Smelik, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans and David Cram. Nijmegen : Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. ISBN 90-806863-4-4 (NL)/ 3-89323084-X (D). EURO 40 (46 including post and packing).

 

 

On 17 February 2005, Anders Ahlqvist, Professor of Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Philology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature at Utrecht University and Docent of Celtic at Helsingfors University, celebrated his 60th birthday. In view of his varied and always lucid scholarly activities, some of his friends have taken the initiative to honour him with a Festschrift . The Festschrift includes 31 contributions written by friends of Anders working in fields which have his special attention, including 11 contributions on history of linguistics or historical linguistics, and 16 contributions by Celtic scholars:

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Contributions to the Festschrift have been written by:

1) The personal and professional career of Anders Ahlqvist

Jacob Ahlqvist ( Edinburgh , Scotland )

William Gillies ( Edinburgh University , Scotland )

A bibliography of the scholarly output of Anders Ahlqvist

2)contributions on Celtic philology

William Gillies ( Edinburgh University , Scotland )

Pierre-Yves Lambert (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris , France )

Tomás Ó Cathasaigh ( Harvard University , USA )

Donncha Ó hAodha (NUI Galway, Ireland)

Joseph Nagy ( UCLA , USA )

Paul Russell (Cambridge University, UK)

Peter Schrijver ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany)

Patrick Sims-Williams ( University of Wales , Aberystwyth, Wales)

Rijcklof Hofman and Bernadette Smelik (Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

3) contributions on Celtic linguistics

Liam Breatnach (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin , Ireland )

Thomas Charles-Edwards (Oxford University, UK)

Gearóid Mac Eoin (Galway, Ireland)

Mícheál Ó Flaithearta (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Erich Poppe ( Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)

Stefan Zimmer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany)

4) contributions on history of linguistics

Sylvie Archaimbault (UMR CNRS 7579: histoire des theories linguistiques, Paris, France)

Bernard Colombat (École normale superieure, Lettres et Sciences humaines, Lyon, France)

David Cram (Jesus College, Oxford, UK)

Fred Karlsson (Helsinki University, Finland)

Anneli Luhtala (Helsinki University, Finland)

Pieter A. M. Seuren (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

Marijke J. van der Wal (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

4) contributions on linguistics

Wieslaw Awedyk ( Harstad , Norway / Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan , Poland ),

Jacek Fisiak ( Adam Mickiewicz University , Poznan , Poland ) and

Camiel Hamans (European Parliament, Brussels-Strasbourg)

Ranko Bugarski ( Belgrade , Serbia / Montenegro )

Paavo Castrén ( Helsinki University , Finland )

John Charles Smith (St. Catherine's College, Oxford University , UK )