A.B., University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics) 1971 M.A., University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics) 1973 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics) 1977
Teaching: Modern and Medieval Welsh Language and Literature; Old and Middle Irish; Medieval Welsh Poetry and Law; Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym; Modern Celtic Cultures and Folklore; Celtic Romanticism; Celtic Literature; Celtic Christianity.
Research Interests
Celtic Specializations: Modern and Medieval Welsh...
Associate Professor Emeritus, Rhetoric and Celtic Studies
Celtic Studies
Degrees
A.B. Harvard College (English, MCL) 1966 * Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Summer Session, 1969 Ph.D. Harvard University (Celtic Languages and Literatures) 1972
Teaching: Old and Middle Irish language and literature; History of the Celts, Celtic Culture; Celtic Folklore; Classical and Medieval Rhetoric; Oral and traditional narrative.
Research Interests: Medieval narrative; orality; Celtic philology.
Degree:Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (French) 1979
Teaching: Medieval and Modern Welsh Language and Literature, Medieval Arthurian Literature including the Grail legends, Medieval Celtic Culture, Mythology (Celtic, Norse and Greek).
Research Interests: Medieval French epic and romance; medieval French epics preserved in Middle Welsh; the interface between medieval French and Welsh cultures as seen in medieval French and Welsh romances; Indo-European mythology.
My primary research interests include historical linguistics, semantics and meaning changes, the semantics of grammatical constructions, cognitive linguistics, metaphor and iconicity, subjectivity and viewpoint, the relationship between language and gesture, and the Celtic language family. My 1990 book, From Etymology to Pragmatics (Cambridge University Press), explores generalizations about synchronic and diachronic patterns of meaning in the areas of model verbs and conjunctions. My 2005...
