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The following items are either as yet unpublished or published under
the author's
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Complete list of
Griffen's publications and other research activity
Deciphering the
Vinča Script
Here
is a paper summarizing this researcher's work in identifying and
deciphering the Vinča Script. This
script was used in
the Balkans in the fifth millennium BCE and represents the first
attested writing, well before the developments in Sumer. It also
reconstructs the first sentence (found to date) ever written: The Bear Goddess and the Bird Goddess are
the Bear Goddess indeed. The paper is an outgrowth of articles
in the Journal of Indo-European
Studies and the LACUS Forum
(see publications)
as well as
guest
lectures at The Citadel and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
It is in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
Last updated on 1 August 2007 with
Addendum II
vinca
script vincha
script
Climate Change
The Great Famine and the Collapse of the Pax Britannica. (Acrobat PDF
File). This is a paper that appeared in the online journal
Celtic Studies, which has since
gone out of print. It is made available here, because it is a
significant study with regard to the current issue of global
warming/climate change. While the events of the sixth century were
local by comparison, the phenomenal advances in both transportation and
weaponry make it quite relevent to the situation today.
Linguistics and Philosophy
Stratificational
Grammar and Neoplatonic Time (Acrobat PDF File). Presented to the
Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States in Claremont, CA
in August 2009. This version of the paper was presented before an
audience familiar with stratificational grammar. For those without this
background, please consider the following paper.
Neoplatonic Time in Stratificational Grammar
(Acrobat PDF File). This
revision of the paper above provides a very brief introduction to
stratificational grammar and is friendlier to the nonspecialist
reader.
Welsh Affricates
The Further
Development of Welsh Affricates (Acrobat PDF File). 1 March 2010.
This is an unpublished paper that has been languishing in my computer
(actually
forgotten for quite a while after pressing matters got in the way). It
treats issues first addressed by this author in a 1974 article on "The
Development of Welsh Affricates" in
Lingua.
The Welsh Mutation System
Understanding the Welsh Mutations
(Acrobat PDF File). 17 December 2010. This is an unpublished monograph
summarizing the researcher's work on the Welsh mutation system within
the framework of dynamic phonology. It is broken down into
contents,
chapter 1,
chapter 2,
chapter 3,
chapter 4, and
appendix.
Ogam *P
Ogam *P
(Acrobat PDF File). 6 May 2010. This article had been accepted for
publication in Volume 44 of
General
Linguistics in 2005. Since that journal ceased operation before
the volume was printed, I am making it available here to all those who
may be interested.
Ph.D. Dissertation
A New Welsh Consonant Shift:
Description and Implications (1975)
This dissertation has been made available by the University of Florida
and can be found at the following URL:
http://www.archive.org/details/newwelshconsonan00grif
Celtic Studies
Nasalization
in Swabian: Studies on the Nasalization Process. This monograph was
completed in the late 1980s and was to be included in the Edward Sapir
Monograph Series in Language, Culture, and Cognition in October 1994.
Indeed,
amazon.com
even lists it with the ISBN 0933104286 (978-0933104280) and
classifies it as "Out of Print -- Limited Availability." Unfortunately
the series was discontinued before this monograph actually appeared.
This is a scanned PDF file from a copy of the camera-ready copy that
had been forwarded to the editor, and this copy has been in storage for
a number of years. Scanning was necessary as the original was produced
on a now-obsolete TRS80 computer
Das
schwäbische Alphabet:
Normalisierte schwäbische Orthographie (The Swabian
Alphabet: Standard Swabian Orthography). This was written in 1990 and
seeks to provide the various Swabian dialects with a standard
orthography in which works from any one dialect can be read and
interpreted with the sounds of the other dialects. In addition to the
scholarly works in the bibliography, over 300 books in Swabian dialect
(including verse, prose, and plays) were consulted. Once again, this is
an old, stored copy produced on a TRS80 computer.

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