Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie

The Journal of Philology celtische ( ZCP ) is a German linguistic Series. It is the oldest legal journal devoted exclusively to the topic of Celtic Studies.

History

The magazine was founded in 1896 by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. Other editors were among others Julius Pokorny and Rudolf Thurneysen. By 2010, 57 volumes have been published. Deviating from the regular title the volumes bear 22 (1941 ) and 23 (1942 /43) the title: Journal of Celtic philology and folk research. Then it came due to the war to an interruption of the editors of 1944 until 1952. A total of contents of all issues can be seen. The magazine is primarily aimed at scientists whose research area concerns the Celtic languages ​​or Celtic culture in any way, and the topic Celtic Studies interested laymen. The Journal of Philology celtische is sourced from libraries and institutions and there usually incorporated into the library collection.

Content

Issues of the magazine are Celtic languages ​​and history and politics of their speakers. In the early years the focus was on the areas of Celtic philology, Old Irish poetry, comparative linguistics and etymology with reference to Celtic and mainland Celtic language monuments. Language as the neukeltischen languages ​​- - Later on current issues were added.

These topics are covered in articles, reviews of books and magazine articles and reading lists. On the death of a deserving scholars of obituary appears. As authors act scientist whose area of ​​research concerns the Celtic languages ​​or Celtic culture in any way.

Layout

Type area: 180 mm high x 110 mm wide, printing in offset application. Older issues can be related to the side of the publishing house's fee as PDF.

Others

• In the poem Binchy and Bergin and Best of Flann O'Brien, the Journal of Philology celtische finds mention where it says about the three ethnic Irish scholars of: "They rose in Their nightshift / To write for the magazine ."
• 1927-1930 was published a landmark series of articles by Julius Pokorny in the ZcP, is in the evidence that the precursor languages ​​of the island Celtic languages ​​were Afro-Asiatic languages.
• In contrast to recent research which identify the island Celtic languages, particularly the Kymrische, as a substrate of English, you behave reserved to hostile. So far, no article has been published, only negative reviews are published.
• In addition to the ZcP a book series of the magazine is published for celtische philology.