Research Activity

Toby David Griffen

Professor Emeritus
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

A.B., The Citadel, 1968
M.A., University of Virginia, 1969
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1975

1. An Applied Linguistic Approach to German Word-Order, Wichita State University Studies #106, 1976
2. Aspects of Dynamic Phonology, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory #37, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985
3. Germano-European: Breaking the Sound Law, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988
4. The Linguistics of Welsh Literature, editor, special issue of Language Sciences, Volume 15, Number 2, 1993
5. Names from the Dawn of British Legend: Taliesin, Aneirin, Myrddin/Merlin, Arthur, Felinfach, Lampeter (Wales): Llanerch Publications, 1994
6. Celebrating the Celtic Saints: As Candles on a Stand, Springfield: IL: Templegate, 1998.
7. The Last Battle of the Gododdin: The Hidden Poem in Armes Prydein, Felinfach, Lampeter (Wales): Llanerch Publications, 2001
8. Phonetic Regularity in Welsh Poetry, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
   

9. “The Development of Welsh Affricates: A Change through Borrowing,” Lingua 34 (1974), 149-65
10. “Lenis Initials in Welsh Borrowings,” Language Sciences 36 (1975), 6-12
11. “On Describing the Cluster Prosody,” LACUS Forum 1 (1975), 140-47
12. “Stratificational Grammar and an Hierarchical Phonology,” Views on Language, ed. by R. Ordoubadian and W. von Raffler-Engel, 245-49, Murfreesboro, TN: Interuniversity Press, 1975
13. “Some Principles of a Nonsegmental Phonology,” 1975 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, ed. by F. Ingemann, 145-55, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1976
14. “Toward a Nonsegmental Phonology,” Lingua 40 (1976), 1-20 [Rpt. in Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, ed. by Charles W. Kreidler, see 92 below]
15. “An Inner-Approach Analysis of the Fortis-Lenis Scale,” Proceedings of the 1976 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, ed. by R.L. Brown, Jr., K. Houlihan, L.G. Hutchinson, and A. MacLeish, 109-114, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1977
16. “Functional Relationships in an Hierarchical Phonology,” LACUS Forum 3 (1977), 473-79
17. “German [x],” Lingua 43 (1977), 375-90
18.  Review of H.-H. Wängler, Instruction in German Pronunciation, 3rd ed., St. Paul: EMC Corporation, 1972. In: Die Unterrichtspraxis 10 (1977) 163-64
19. “Teaching Pronunciation in the Dynamic Mode,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 10 (1977), 77-81
20. “The Archiphoneme in Historical Linguistics,” Forum Linguisticum 2 (1977), 107-118
21. “Phonology - The State of the Art,” The SECOL Bulletin 2:2 (1978), 15-28
22. “Stratificational Description in Language Acquisition,” Papers from the 1977 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, ed. by D.M. Lance and D.E. Gulstad, 81-86, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri, 1978
23. “The Case against Allophony,” LACUS Forum 4 (1978), 484-90
24. “Language as a First-Level Abstraction,” LACUS Forum 5 (1979), 555-61
25. “Lenition, Provection, and the Indo-European Sound Shift,” Forum Linguisticum 4 (1979), 26-43
26. “On Phonological Stress in Welsh,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 28 (1979), 106-112
27. “A Nonsegmental Approach to the Teaching of Pronunciation,” Revue de Phonétique Appliquée 54 (1980), 81-94 [Rpt. in Teaching English Pronunciation, ed. by A. Brown, see 60 below]
28. “Nationalism and the Emergence of a New Standard Welsh,” Language Problems and Language Planning 4 (1980), 187-94
29. “Provection from Prosodic Constraint,” LACUS Forum 6 (1980), 102-110
30. “The Passive in Welsh; A Relational Analysis,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 28 (1980), 448-78
31. “The Reverse Shift Hypothesis,” The SECOL Bulletin 4:2 (1980), 72-76
32. “A Nonsegmental Model for Description and Analysis,” Phonology in the 1980’s, ed. by D. Goyvaerts, 617-34, Ghent: Story Scientia, 1981
33. “German Affricates,” Lingua 53 (1981), 175-89
34. “Prosodic Alliteration in Cynghanedd Poetry,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 29 (1981), 497-503
35. “Slips of the Tongue and Metathesis in a Nonsegmental Phonology,” LACUS Forum 7 (1981), 138-44
36. “The German Passive: Analysis and Teaching Technique,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 14 (1981), 59-64
37. “The High German Sound Shift: Phonetic Justification,” Papers from the 1980 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, ed. by M.M.T. Henderson, 199-206, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1981
38. “German /R/,” Lingua 56 (1982), 297-316
39. “On the Position of Germanic in the Indo-European Sound Shift,” Colloquia Germanica 15:1 (1982), 1-16
40. Review of D.B. Gregor, Celtic: A Comparative Study, Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1980. In: Language Problems and Language Planning 6 (1982), 322-25
41. Review of B.B. Khleif, Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales, The Hague: Mouton, 1980. In: Language Problems and Language Planning 6 (1982), 326-29
42. “Voice-Tension Competition in Greek and Latin,” Forum Linguisticum 6 (1982), 202-216
43. “Vowel Affection in Dynamic Phonology,” LACUS Forum 8 (1982), 207-217
44. “Nonsegmental Phonology as Functional Dynamic Phonetics,” Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett, ed. by F.B. Agarda, G. Kelley, A. Makkai, and V.B. Makkai, 350-67. Leiden: Brill, 1983
45. “The Swabian Voiceless Vowel,” Word 34 (1983), 145-73
46. “Totally Obstructed Syllables in Dynamic Phonology,” LACUS Forum 9 (1983), 207-215
47. “Dynamic Phonology and the Indo-European Sound Shift,” LACUS Forum 10 (1984), 155-66
48. “Early Welsh Eclipsis: Dynamic Analysis,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 31 (1984), 48-61
49. “On the Metaplastic Negative in French, Welsh, and Swabian,” Forum Linguisticum 8 (1984), 39-49
50. “Early Welsh Aspiration: A Dynamic Perspective,” Word 36 (1985), 211-35
51. “On Middle Welsh Auslautsverhärtung,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 32 (1985), 157-62
52. “Rückkehr des Fremdsprachenzwanges: Situation des deutschen Studiums an einer amerikanischen Universität,” Auslandskurier/Diplomatischer Kurier 26:3 (1985), 26-27
53. “The Swabian First-Person Plural,” LACUS Forum 11 (1985), 137-42
54. “On Middle Welsh Final Lengthening,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 33 (1986), 9-17
55. Review of M. Stephens, The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. In: Papers in Language and Literature 22 (1986), 448-51
56. “Segmenting the Unsegmentable: Dynamic Phonology and Swabian Orthography,” LACUS Forum 12 (1986), 195-201
57. “Symmetry in Swabian Umlaut Patterns,” LACUS Forum 13 (1987), 27-35
58. “Middle Welsh Vowel Assimilation Patterns: Interacting Parameters,” Studia Celtica 22/23 (1987/88), 146-56
59. “Cymric Language and Logic,” LACUS Forum 14 (1988), 88-96
60. “Nostratic and Germano-European,” General Linguistics 29 (1989), 139-49
61. “The Dynamics of Vowel Quantity in Welsh,” Word 40 (1989), 335-47
62. “Toward a Dynamic Sound Law: The Sibilants in British,” LACUS Forum 15 (1989), 383-89
63. “Tragedy versus Comedy: Helmut Schmid’s Schüsse im Staatsforst,” Essays in Literature 17 (1990), 284-94
64. “Compensatory Lengthening: Nonlinear and Dynamic Analyses,” LACUS Forum 16 (1990), 279-85
65. “Degemination Strategies in New High German and Swabian,” Lingua 82 (1990), 131-49
66. “Old Welsh ll and rh,” Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 37 (1990), 89-103
67. “Teaching the Relative Clause through Asyndeta: A Structural/Historical Approach,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 23 (1990), 159-62
68. “A Nonsegmental Approach to the Teaching of Pronunciation,” Teaching English Pronunciation, ed. by A. Brown, 178-90. London: Routledge, 1991 [Rpt. from Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, see 19 above]
69. “The Cause of Sibilant Aspiration in British,” LACUS Forum 17 (1991), 146-50
70. “Epenthesis and the Old Welsh Accent Shift,” Studia Celtica 26/27 (1991/92), 163-74
71. “Mesotomy and Phonological Theory,” LACUS Forum 18 (1992), 279-84
72. “On Comparing Fields,” Communications of the Workshop on Scientific Linguistics 2:7 (1992), 35-38
73. “Transition Tempo in Swabian,” Lingua 88 (1992), 149-63
74. “Generic Consonant Correspondences in Canu Aneirin,” Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 2 (1993), 93-105
75. “Germano-European and the Phonetic Plausibility Theory,” Word 44 (1993), 473-84
76. “Mesotomic Syllables in the Armes Prydein,” Linguistics of Welsh Literature (= Language Sciences, special issue 15/2), ed. by T.D. Griffen, 91-106. Oxford: Pergamon, 1993
77. “Phonological Syllables in Armes Prydein,” LACUS Forum 19 (1993), 381-86
78. “Preface: Why the Linguistics of Welsh Literature?” Linguistics of Welsh Literature (= Language Sciences, special issue 15/2), ed. by T.D. Griffen, 77-80. Oxford: Pergamon, 1993
79. Review of  Celtic Linguistics: Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd, Readings in the Brythonic Languages, Festschrift for T. Arwyn Watkins, ed. by Martin J. Ball, James Fife, Erich Poppe, and Jenny Rowlands, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 68, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990. In: Linguistics of Welsh Literature (= Language Sciences, special issue 15/2), ed. by T.D. Griffen, 155-63. Oxford: Pergamon, 1993
80. “Altaic, Germano-European, and Nostratic: The Evidence of Phonetics and Phonological Systems,” Mother Tongue 22 (1994), 38-50
81. “Nonsyllabics in Armes Prydein,” Journal of Celtic Linguistics 3 (1994), 75-93
82. “Toward a One-Dimensional Syllable Analysis,” LACUS Forum 20 (1994), 239-44
83. “Music and Accent Discrepancy,” LACUS Forum 21 (1995), 95-99
84. “Pitch and Vowel Reduction/Centralization” LACUS Forum (22) (1996), 435-40
85. “Pitch, Stress, and Vowel Reduction,” General Linguistics 36 (1996), 17-32
86. “A Single Accent Rule for Cynghanedd,” Journal of Celtic Linguistics 7 (1997), 125-35
87. “Pitch Accent, Cynghanedd, and Notionalism,” LACUS Forum 23 (1997), 595-600
88. “The Extended Syllable,” Linguistic Studies in Honor of Bohdan Saciuk, ed. by R.M. Hammond and M.G. MacDonald, 277-84, West Lafayette, IN: Learning Systems Inc., 1997
89. “The Law of the Sibilants in Brythonic,” Studia Celtica (Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies) 31 (1997), 125-33
90. “Welsh Alveopalatals: Functional Pattern Attraction,” Word 48 (1997), 353-66
91. “Why was St David called St David Aquaticus?” Y Drych 146:2 (1997), 10-11
92. “Aber Perydon: River of Death,” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 15 (1998), 32-41
93. “The Invisible Consonants in Cynghanedd Poetry,” LACUS Forum 24 (1998), 37-43
94. “A Dynamic Approach to Bartholomae’s and Grassmann’s Laws,” General Linguistics, 36 (1999), 205-26
95. “Acoustic versus Physiological Lenition: The Revised Motor Theory in Action,” LACUS Forum 25 (1999), 119-26
96. “Literary Assumptions and Linguistic Analysis in Poetics,” Publication of the Illinois Philological Association 2 (1999),  http://www.eiu.edu/~ipaweb/pipa/volume2/griffen.htm
97. “Unraveling Holtzmann’s Law,” 1998 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, ed. by Nancy M. Lutz and Ronald P. Schaefer, 9-16. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1999
98. “A Change in Welsh from a Change in Music?” Celtic Cultural Studies (2000), http://www.celtic-cultural-studies.com/papers/01/griffen-01.html
99. “The Dilemma of the Welsh Sentence Particle: Empiricism in Stratificational Linguistics,” Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition. Papers in Honor of Sydney M. Lamb, ed. by J.E. Copeland, P.H. Fries, and D.G. Lockwood, 105-122. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 163. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000
100. “The Grammar of the Pictish Symbol Stones,” LACUS Forum 27 (2001), 217-26
101. “Toward a Nonsegmental Phonology,” Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, ed. by Charles W. Kreidler, vol 5, 20-39. London: Routledge, 2001 [Rpt. from Lingua, see 6 above]
102. “Reconstructing Ogam *P,” LACUS Forum 28 (2002), 233-38
103. “Letters, Numbers, and the Dating of Ogam,” LACUS Forum 29 (2003), 83-89
     
104. “The Great Famine and the Collapse of the Pax Britannica,” Celtic Cultural Studies (2003), http://www.celtic-cultural-studies.com/papers/02/griffen-02.html
105. “The Inscriptions on Jela 1 and 2,” The Journal of Indo-European Studies 31 (2003), 87-93
106. “Deciphering the Inscriptions on Jela 1 and 2,” The Journal of Indo-European Studies 32 (2004), 11-23
     
107. “Toward a Decipherment of Jela 1 and 2,” LACUS Forum 30 (2004), 97-104
108. “From Art to Writing: The Megalithic Impetus for Ogam Script,” LACUS Forum 31 (2005), 227-33
     
109. “Language and Fragmentation: The Case of Celtic Britain,” LACUS Forum 32 (2006), 23-30
110. “Motif versus Logogram in Vinča Inscriptions,” LACUS Forum 34 (2009 [2008]), 79-83
     
111. “Pre-Indo-European Verb-Subject Order,” LACUS Forum 35 (2009), 153-56

Conference Papers

Papers published in substantially the same form as the conference presentation are printed in blue,
and the publication number from the list above is included in brackets.

Unpublished conference papers are printed in black.

National/International

112. “On Describing the Cluster Prosody,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States I, August 1974, Lake Forest, Illinois [011]
113. “Abstracting Phonology from Dynamic Phonetics,” 29th University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1976, Lexington
114. “Functional Relationships in an Hierarchical Phonology,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States III, August 1976, El Paso [016]
115. “Middle High German, a Voicing Language,” 51st Annual Meeting, Linguistic Society of America, December 1976, Philadelphia
116. “The Case Against Allophony,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States IV, August 1977, Montreal [023]
117. “Deep and Surface Syllables,” 52nd Annual Meeting, Linguistic Society of America, December 1977, Chicago
118. “Language as a First-Level Abstraction,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States V, August 1978, Buffalo [024]
119. “Prosody in Teaching Pronunciation,” Fifth International Congress of Applied Linguistics, August 1978, Montreal [027]
120. “On the Welsh ‘Impersonal’ Passive,” Modern Language Association of America, December 1978, New York
121. “Provection from Prosodic Constraint,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States VI, August 1979, Calgary [029]
122. “Implications for Language Teaching in the Phonetic Categorization Experiments,” Modern Language Association of America, December 1979, San Francisco
123. “Language, Society, and Nationalism: The Conflicts over Welsh,” Modern Language Association of America, December 1979, San Francisco
     
124. “Slips of the Tongue and Metathesis in a Nonsegmental Phonology,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States VII, August 1980, Houston[035]
125. “On the Development of a Dynamic Linguistic Phonetics,” Modern Language Association of America, December 1980, Houston
126. “Vowel Affection in Dynamic Phonology,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States VIII, August 1981, Toronto [043]
127. “Totally Obstructed Vowels in Dynamic Phonology,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States IX, August 1982, Evanston, Illinois [046]
128. “Dynamic Phonology and the Indo-European Sound Shift,” Linguistic Association of  Canada and the United States X, August 1983, Quebec [047]
129. “The Swabian First Person Plural,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XI, August 1984, Ithaca, New York [053]
130. “Segmenting the Unsegmentable: Dynamic Phonology and Swabian Orthography,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XII, August 1985, Saskatoon [056]
131. “Glide Nasalization in Swabian,” 31st Annual Conference, International Linguistic Association, March 1986, New York
132. “Symmetry in Swabian Umlaut Patterns,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XIII, August 1986, Arlington, Texas [057]
133. “Cymric Language and Logic,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XIV, August 1987, Toronto [059]
134. “Toward a Dynamic Sound Law: The Sibilants in British,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XV, August 1988, East Lansing, Michigan [062]
135. “Compensatory Lengthening: Nonlinear and Dynamic Analyses,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XVI, August 1989, Kingston, Ontario [064]
136. “The Cause of Sibilant Aspiration in British,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XVII, August 1990, Fullerton, California [069]
137. “Generic Consonant Correspondences in Canu Aneirin,” combined meeting of California Celtic Conference and the Celtic Studies Association of North America, March 1991, Berkeley [074]
138. “Germano-European and the Phonetic Plausibility Theory,” invited lecture to plenary session of the 36th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, April 1991, New York [075]
139. “Mesotomy and Phonological Theory,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XVIII, August 1991, Ann Arbor, Michigan [071]
140. “Phonological Syllables in Armes Prydein,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XIX, August 1992, Montreal [077]
141. “The Mesotomic Syllable in Old Welsh Poetry,” Celtic Studies Association of North America, April 1993, Seattle
142. “Toward a One-Dimensional Syllable,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XX, July 1993, Chicago [082]
143. “Arthur’s Name,” Celtic Studies Association of North America, April 1994, Athens, Georgia
144. “Music and Accent Discrepancy,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXI, August 1994, Vancouver [083]
145. “Aber Perydon: River of Death,” joint meeting of the 15th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium and the Celtic Studies Association of North America, April 1995, Boston [092]
146. “Pitch and Vowel Reduction/Centralization,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXII, August 1995, San Antonio [084]
147. “A Single Accent Rule for Cynghanedd,” joint meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America and the University of California Celtic Colloquium, May 1996, Los Angeles
148. “Pitch Accent, Cynghanedd, and Notionalism,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXIII, August 1996, Provo, Utah [087]
149. “The Rule of the ‘Exceptions’ in Cynghanedd Poetry,” Celtic Studies Association of North America, May 1997, Montreal, Quebec
150. “The Invisible Consonants in Cynghanedd Poetry, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXIV, August 1997, York, Ontario” [093]
151. “Anapaestoid Meter in Welsh Poetry,” joint meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America and the University of California Celtic Colloquium, May 1998, Los Angeles
152. “Acoustic versus Physiological Lenition: The Revised Motor Theory in Action,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXV, August 1998, Claremont, California [095]
153. “The Anapaestoid Tradition in Welsh Poetry,” Eleventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, July 1999, Cork, Ireland
154.  “The Gododdin in Armes Prydein,” Celtic Studies Association of America, April l999, New York
     
155. “The Pictish Art of the Archer Guardian,” Celtic Studies Association of North America, March 2000, St Louis
156. “The Grammar of the Pictish Symbol Stones,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXVII, July 2000, Houston, Texas [100]
157. “Ogam: Celtic or Pre-Celtic?” Celtic Studies Association of North America, March 2001, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
158. “Reconstructing Ogam *P,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXVIII, July 2001, Montreal, Quebec [102]
159. “On the Age of Ogam,” Celtic Studies Association of North America, May 2002, Notre Dame
160. “Letters, Numbers, and the Dating of Ogam,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXIX, July 2002, Toledo, Ohio [103]
161. “Toward a Decipherment of Jela 1 and 2,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXIX, August 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia [107]
162. “From Art to Writing: The Megalithic Impetus for Ogam Script,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXXI, August 2004, Chicago, Illinois [108]
163. “Language and Fragmentation: The Case of Celtic Britain,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXXII (Presidential Address), August 2005, Dartmouth, New Hampshire [109]
164. “Motif versus Logogram in Vinča Inscriptions,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXXIV, July 2007, Richmond, Kentucky [110]
165. “Pre-Indo-European Verb-Subject Order,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXXV, June 2008, Quebec, Canada [111]
166. “Stratificational Grammar and Neoplatonic Time,” Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States XXXVI, August 2009, Claremont, California

 Regional

167. “The Archiphoneme in Generative Phonology,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XI, May 1974, Tampa
168. “The Interaction and Description of Phonologies in Contact,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XII, November 1974, Washington
169. “Stratificational Grammar and an Hierarchical Phonology,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XIII, March 1975, Nashville [012]
170. “Some Principles of a Nonsegmental Phonology,” 1975 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, October 1975, Lawrence, Kansas [013]
171. “The Role of the Archiphoneme in Sound Shifts,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XIV, November 1975, Atlanta
172. “An Inner-Approach Analysis of the Fortis-Lenis Scale,” 1976 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, October 1976, Minneapolis [015]
173. “Stratificational Description in Language Acquisition,” 1977 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, October 1977, Columbia, Missouri [022]
174. “Phonology – The State of the Art,” invited lecture to plenary session of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XVIII, April 1978, Knoxville [021]
175. “Analysis by Direction of Constraint,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XIX, November 1978, Atlanta
176. “On the ‘Impure’ Alliteration of the Cynghanedd,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XXI, November 1979, Norfolk
177. “The Reverse Shift Hypothesis: A Brief Summary of the Evidence,” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XXIII, November 1980, Atlanta [031]
178. “The High German Sound Shift: Phonetic Justification,” 1980 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, October 1980, Lawrence, Kansas [037]
179. “Tugend and Ehre in Medieval German Literature: The Shifting Foundation of Moral Conduct,” Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1985, St. Louis
180. “Comedy versus Tragic Reality in Helmut Schmid’s Schüsse im Staatsforst,” Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1986, Chicago [063]
181. “On the Fall of German as the Form of Authority in Swabian Literature,” Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1988, St. Louis
182. “Literary Assumptions and Linguistic Analysis in Poetics,” Illinois Philological Association, April 1998, Macomb [096]
183. “Unraveling Holtzmann’s Law,” Mid-America Linguistic Conference, October 1998, Edwardsville [097]

Selected Works Posted on the Internet

(www.fanad.net)

Previously Accepted for Publication

184. Nasalization in Swabian. 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
185. “Ogam *P.” This article had been accepted for publication in Volume 44 of General Linguistics in 2005, but the journal ceased operation before the volume was printed. Posted on 6 May 2010

  Works in Progress

186. “Deciphering the Vinča Script.” This summarizes 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. Last update posted on 1 August 2007 with Addendum II
187. “The Further Development of Welsh Affricates.” This unpublished paper treats issues first addressed by this researcher in his first article, “The Development of Welsh Affricates” in Lingua [item 1], and later expanded in “Welsh Alveopalatals: Functional Pattern Attraction” in Word [item 82]. Posted on 1 March 2010
188. 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
     

Other Unpublished Papers

189. “Celtic Mutations: Beyond the P’s and Q’s.” This shows the phonetic relationships within and between the P-Celtic (Welsh) and the Q-Celtic (Irish) mutation systems
190. “The Development of Middle Welsh ap Names: A Dynamic Perspective.” Originally accepted for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2006, but withdrawn as the researcher could not attend
     
191. “Neoplatonic Time in Stratificational Grammar.” This is a revision of the final paper given before the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States [item 158]. It is intended for those who may not have the background in stratificational grammar assumed in the professional paper
192. “The Eradication of *Bryth and the Fate of the Briton.” This examines Welsh terminology in early literature to explain the disappearance of the old singular form *Bryth‘Briton’. In the process some insight is achieved into the historical situation in the Early Middle Ages regarding Picts and Vikings
193. “The Impetus for Ogam and the Issue of Celticity.” This draft identifies the impetus for ogam in design motifs from Megalithic Ireland and Britain, creating problems for the definition of “Celtic”

194. Understanding the Welsh Mutations is a summary of the researcher's analysis of the Welsh mutation system through the framework of dynamic phonology, posted on 17 December 2010. It is split into the following sections:  Contents,  Chapter 1,  Chapter 2,  Chapter 3,  Chapter 4,  Appendix.