Bibliography
Axel
Harlos
Works edited
Harlos, Axel, and Neele Harlos (eds), Adapting texts and styles in a Celtic context: interdisciplinary perspectives on processes of literary transfer in the middle ages: studies in honour of Erich Poppe, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, 13, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2016.
Includes a bibliography of Erich Poppe’s publications.
Includes a bibliography of Erich Poppe’s publications.
Contributions to journals
Harlos, Axel, “Decoding Middle Welsh relative clauses”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 18 (2017): 1–28.
abstract:
Nominal case marking has reached a high degree of syncretism in Middle Welsh, and nominal forms are distinguished only for singular and plural. Additionally, Middle Welsh does not possess relative pronouns which can morphologically or syntactically signal an antecedent's precise syntactic function within a relative clause. This means that in certain constructions morpho-syntactic cues may not always be sufficient to define syntactic relations in Middle Welsh relative clauses. The following study is based on the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and selections from Middle Welsh historiographical texts. It uses a statistical approach to evaluate the frequencies with which ambiguous syntactic relations appear in Middle Welsh relative clauses, and assesses the contribution of other concepts like accessibility, animacy, co-text and general knowledge of the world available within a clause for the assignment of syntactic relations.
abstract:
Nominal case marking has reached a high degree of syncretism in Middle Welsh, and nominal forms are distinguished only for singular and plural. Additionally, Middle Welsh does not possess relative pronouns which can morphologically or syntactically signal an antecedent's precise syntactic function within a relative clause. This means that in certain constructions morpho-syntactic cues may not always be sufficient to define syntactic relations in Middle Welsh relative clauses. The following study is based on the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and selections from Middle Welsh historiographical texts. It uses a statistical approach to evaluate the frequencies with which ambiguous syntactic relations appear in Middle Welsh relative clauses, and assesses the contribution of other concepts like accessibility, animacy, co-text and general knowledge of the world available within a clause for the assignment of syntactic relations.
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Harlos, Axel, “The influence of animacy and accessibility on Middle Welsh positive declarative main clauses. Evidence from historiographical texts”, in: Erich Poppe, Karin Stüber, and Paul Widmer (eds), Referential properties and their impact on the syntax of Insular Celtic languages, 14, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2017. 37–67.
Harlos, Axel, “Abraham: Referenz und Autorität für die mittelalterliche irische Identitätsfindung im Lebor gabála Érenn”, in: Ludger Lieb, Klaus Oschema, and Johannes Heil (eds), Abrahams Erbe: Konkurrenz, Konflikt und Koexistenz der Religionen im europäischen Mittelalter, 2, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 170–184.
