Fortson (Benjamin Wynn)

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8999.
Fortson (Benjamin W.): Indo-European language and culture: an introduction.
BTL, 19. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. xvi + 468 pp.
pp. 280-291: Insular Celtic; Goidelic: Old Irish and its descendants; Scottish Gaelic and Manx.

Rev. by
Michael Weiss, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 126/2 (2006), pp. 279-281.
Susanne Zeilfelder, in Kratylos 53 (2008), pp. 174-176.
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8146.
Fortson (Benjamin W.): On ‘double-nasal’ presents in Celtic and Indo-European and a new Irish sound law.
In ZCP 57 (2009–2010), pp. 48–78.
Proposes an alternative explanation for the origin of the Old Irish set of verbs ending in -e(i)nnid/-einn in the present (such as ro·geinn, do·greinn, etc.), rejecting K. McCone’s derivation of this verb type from PIE ‘double nasal’ presents (in FS Watkins, pp. 465-476) and arguing instead that -nn- is the regular outcome of *-nd- when it was flanked by non-low front vowels.
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