Peter Schrijver

For the 17th-century historian, seePetrus Scriverius.

Peter Schrijver
Born	1963
Citizenship	Dutch
Academic background
Education	Leiden University
Academic work
Institutions	Leiden University Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Utrecht University

Peter Schrijver(Dutch:[ˈsxrɛivər];born 1963) is a Dutchlinguist.He is a professor ofCeltic languagesatUtrecht Universityand a researcher of ancientIndo-European linguistics.He worked previously atLeiden Universityand theLudwig Maximilian University of Munich.

He has published four books and a large number of articles on the history and the linguistics ofIndo-European languages,particularly the description, reconstruction and syntax of theCeltic languages,and has lately been researchinglanguage changeandlanguage contactinancient Europe.

Biography

Born inDelftin 1963, Schrijver studied from 1981 classical philology, comparative Indo-European linguistics and Caucasian linguistics atLeiden Universityand obtained a PhDcum laudethere in 1991 with the dissertationThe Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin.He did postdoctoral research in historical Celtic linguistics as a fellow of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciencesbetween 1992 and 1997.

Schrijver became the chair of linguistics at theLudwig Maximilian University of Munichin 1999. Since 2005, he has been the chair of Celtic languages and culture atUtrecht Universityand he has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities since 2015.

Works

Books

• 1991:The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin.Doctoral dissertation. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 2. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.ISBN978-90-5183-308-9
• 1995:Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology.Amsterdam: Rodopi.ISBN90-5183-820-4.
• 1997:Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles.Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland.ISBN0-901519-59-6.
• 2014:Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages.New York & Abingdon: Routledge.ISBN978-0-415-35548-3.

Edited volume

• 2004: with Peter-Arnold Mumm (eds.),Sprachtod und Sprachgeburt.Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen.

Articles and book chapters

• 1990: “Latinfestīnāre,Welshbrys”,Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft51: 243–247.
• 1991: “The development of primitive Irish *aNbefore voiced stop”,Ériu42: 13–25.
• 1992: “The development of PIE *sk- in British”,Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies39: 1–15.
• 1993:
  • “On the development of vowels before tautosyllabic nasals in Primitive Irish”,Ériu44: 33–52.
  • “Varia IV. OIr.dëec,dëac”,Ériu44: 181–184.
• 1994: “The Celtic adverbs for ‘against’ and ‘with’ and the early apocope of *-i”,Ériu45: 151–189.
• 1996: “OIr.gor‘pious, dutiful’: meaning and etymology”,Ériu47: 193–204.
• 1997: “Animal, vegetable and mineral: Some western European substratum words”, inSound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday,ed. Alexander Lubotsky. Amsterdam–Atlanta: Rodopi, pp. 293–316.
• 1998: “The British word for ‘fox’ and its Indo-European origins”,JIES26: 421–434.
• 1999:
  • “Vedicgr̥bhṇā́ti,gr̥bhāyátiand the semantics of *ye- derivatives of nasal presents”,Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft59: 115–162.
  • “Vowel rounding by Primitive Irish labiovelars”,Ériu50: 133–137.
  • “On henbane and early European narcotics”,Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie51: 17–45.
  • “The Celtic contribution to the development of the North Sea Germanic vowel system, with special reference to Coastal Dutch”,NOWELE35: 3–47.
• 2001: “Lost languages in Northern Europe”, inEarly Contacts Between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations,eds. C. Carpelan, A. Parpola & P. Koskikallio. Helsinki: Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne: 417–425.
• 2002: “The Rise and Fall of British Latin: Evidence from English and Brittonic”, inThe Celtic Roots of English,eds. Markkuu Filppula, Juhani Klemola, & Heli Pitkänen. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Humanities, pp. 87–110.
• 2003:
  • “Athematici-presents: the Italic and Celtic evidence”,Incontri Linguistici26: 59–86.
  • “The etymology of Welshchwithand the semantics and etymology of PIE *k⁽ʷ⁾sweibʰ-”,Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh,ed. P. Russell. Aberystwyth: 1–23.
• 2004:
  • “Indo-European *smer- in Greek and Celtic”, inIndo-European perspectives: Studies in honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies,ed. J. Penney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 292–299.
  • “Apes, dwarfs, rivers and Indo-European Internal Derivation”, inPer aspera ad asteriscos: Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen sexagenarii Idibus Martiis anno MMIV,eds. Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson, & Thomas Olander. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, pp. 507–511.
  • “Der Tod des Festlandkeltischen und die Geburt des Französischen, Niederländischen und Hochdeutschen”, inSprachtod und Sprachgeburt,eds. Peter Schrijver & Peter-Arnold Mumm. Bremen: Dr. Ute Hempen, pp. 1–20.
• 2005: “Early Celtic diphthongization and the Celtic-Latin interface”, inNew Approaches to Celtic Placenames in Ptolemy’s Geography,eds. J. de Hoz, R.L. Luján & Patrick Sims-Williams. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 55–67.
• 2007:
  • “Some common developments of Continental and Insular Celtic”, inGaulois et celtique continental,eds. Pierre-Yves Lambert & Georges-Jean Pinault. Geneva: Droz, 357–371.
  • “What Britons spoke around 400 AD”, inBritons in Anglo-Saxon England,ed. N. J. Higham. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007, pp. 165–71.
• 2009: “Celtic influence on Old English: Phonological and phonetic evidence”,English Language and Linguistics13, no. 2 (2009): 193–211.
• 2011:Brythonic Celtic—Britannisches Keltisch: From Medieval British to Modern Breton,ed. Elmar Ternes. Bremen: Hempen Verlag.
  • “Old British”, 1–85.
  • “Middle Breton”, 358–429.
• 2015:
  • “Pruners and trainers of the Celtic family tree: The rise and development of Celtic in the light of language contact”, inProceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies Maynooth 2011.Eds. Liam Breatnach, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Damian McManus, & Katherine Simms. Dublin:Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,2015, pp. 191–219.
  • “Recognizing prehistoric sound change caused by language contact: The rise of Irish (c. 100–600 AD)”. Handout from the workshop ‘Managing multilingualism: Contact, attitudes and planning in historical contexts’ at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University, 2–5 September 2015.

Reviews

• 2003: Review ofUCLA Indo-European Studies Volume 1,edited by Brent Vine & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov,Kratylos48: 89–93.
• 2006: Review ofVeni Vidi Vici: Die Vorgeschichte des lateinischen Perfektsystems,by Gerhard Meiser,Kratylos51: 46–64.