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Mees (Bernard)

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Mees, Bernard, “Nehalennia and the Marsaci”, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 83:1 (2023): 1–25.  
abstract:
The goddess Nehalennia is known principally from two sanctuaries in Zeeland that have been dated to the late second and early third centuries. Variously explained as a Celtic or Germanic theonym, Nehalennia may best be understood in terms of the evidence of other names associated with Roman Zeeland. The Nehalennia sanctuaries are both situated in an area that seems likely to have fallen within the Roman civitas named for the Belgic Menapi, but the cult of Nehalennia appears likely to have been an originally Germanic development before it became more widely adopted by all manner of merchants who traded through the ports in the area. The theonym appears to record similar phonological developments to names recorded of Marsacian soldiers stationed in Roman Britain and Nehalennia accordingly appears to have been a goddess of the Marsaci.
Mees, Bernard, “Left branch extraction and clitic placement in Gaulish”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 22 (2021): 105–124.  
abstract:

The inscriptional remains of Gaulish preserve syntactic behaviours that are not expected from the perspective of the diachronic schemes usually posited for the development of early Insular Celtic syntax from Proto-Indo-European. Widespread evidence is attested, particularly for the behaviour of clitics, that does not seem reconcilable with many of the assumptions made in previous studies regarding the nature of the syntax of Proto-Celtic. Gaulish also evidently features scrambling-type phenomena such as left branch extraction that are not usually thought to appear in other Celtic languages. An analysis which begins with an assessment of these features leads to a more empirically predicated and consistent understanding of the early development of Celtic word order than has been proffered previously.

Mees, Bernard, “Poeninus and the romanisation of the Celtic Alps”, in: Jonathan M. Wooding, and Lynette Olson (eds), Prophecy, fate and memory in the early medieval Celtic world, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020. 14–33.
Mees, Bernard, and Nick Nicholas, “Greek curses and the Celtic underworld”, Studia Celtica 46 (2012): 23–38.
Mees, Bernard, “Words from the well at Gallo-Roman Châteaubleau”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 58 (2011): 87–108.
Mees, Bernard, “A Gaulish prayer for vengeance on a lamella from Lezoux”, Celtica 26 (2010): 48–65.
Mees, Bernard, Celtic curses, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2009.
Mees, Bernard, “Early Celtic metre at Vergiate and Prestino”, Historische Sprachforschung 121 (2008): 188–208.
Mees, Bernard, “The women of Larzac”, Keltische Forschungen 3 (2008): 169–188.
Mees, Bernard, “Case and genre in Gaulish: from Mont Auxois to the Pont d'Ancy”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 12 (November, 2008): 121–138.  
abstract:

A close textual examination of case-marking and role in Gaulish suggests that the instrumental (and ablative) formants and functions inherited from Indo-European remained largely independent in use from those of the other oblique cases. Although a distinct morphological locative seems to have been given up at a prehistoric stage, the Gaulish of the Roman period appears to have preserved a much fuller and more synthetic system of grammatical case than did any of the medieval Celtic languages. The practice of projecting Insular Celtic behaviours onto Continental Celtic (or even cross-linguistic abstractions derived from broader linguistic theory) should not serve as a substitute for analysing Gaulish inscriptions from the perspective of interlingual intertextuality and of properly contextualized epigraphic genre. Gaulish should be understood principally as a closely historicized inscriptional language, its attested expressions constrained by typical ancient Mediterranean epigraphic pragmatics, yet representing an idiosyncratic development of Celtic linguistic tradition nonetheless.

Mees, Bernard, “The Celtic inscriptions of Bath”, Studia Celtica 39 (2005): 176–181.
Markey, Tom, and Bernard Mees, “A Celtic orphan from Castaneda”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 54 (2004): 54–120.
Markey, Tom, and Bernard Mees, “Prestino, patrimony and the Plinys”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 53 (2003): 116–167.
Mees, Bernard, “On Gaulish tau”, Studia Celtica 36 (2002): 21–26.
Mees, Bernard, “A Celtic Fichte?”, Studia Celtica 36 (2002): 139–141.


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