John T. Koch | Select publications
I. BOOKS
- *[2013] Author/editor, Cunedda, Cynan, Cadwallon, Cynddylan: Four Welsh Poems and Britain 383–655, Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, pp. vi +328. 978–1–907029–13–4
- *[2013] Co-editor and contributing author, Celtic from the West 2. Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. viii + 237.
- *[2013] Author, Tartessian: Celtic in the South-west at the Dawn of History, Celtic Studies Publications 13, Aberystwyth, pp. xii + 332. Revised & expanded edition. 978–1–891271–19–9 First edition published 2009 [see below]
- [2012] General editor and principal contributing author (with Antone Minard editor), The Celts: History, Life and Culture, ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara and Oxford. 2 vols, pp. 958 ISBN (print) 978–1–59884–964–6, (e-book) 978–1–59884–965–3
- *[2011] Author, Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho, ro and the Verbal Complex, Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, pp. vi + 198. 978–1–907029–07–3
- [2010; 2012] Co-editor and contributing author, Celtic from the West. Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language, and Literature. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. viii + 388.
- [2009] Author, Tartessian: Celtic in the South-west at the Dawn of History, Celtic Studies Publications 13, Aberystwyth, pp. x + 173. Revised & expanded edition [2013 above]
- [2007] Author, An Atlas for Celtic Studies: Archaeology and Names in Ancient Europe and Early Medieval Ireland, Britain, and Brittany, Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. viii + 216 ISBN 978–1–84217–309–1
- [2006] Editor and principal contributing author, Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara and Oxford. 5 vols, pp. xxviii + 2128 ISBN (print) 1–85109–440–7, (e-book) 1–85109–445–8
- [2003] General editor and co-translator, The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales, (Malden, 1994) Revised ex¬panded second edition 1995, first reprinted 1995, 416 pp.; 3rd edition, revised and expanded (Andover & Aberystwyth, 2000), 426 pp.; 4th edition, revised and expanded, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications (2003) ISBN 1 891271 09 1, Pp. x, 438
- [2000] Co-author, The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany/Les inscriptions de la Bretagne du Haut Moyen Âge, with Wendy Davies, Gwenaël Le Duc, et al. (Aberystwyth, 2000) 360 pp.
- [1999] Co-editor and contributing author, Ildánach Ildírech: A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana, with J. Carey and P.-Y. Lambert and contributing author (Andover & Aberystwyth, 1999) 330 pp.
- [1997] Author, The Gododdin of Aneirin: Texts and Context from Dark-Age North Britain (Historical Introduction, Reconstructed Text, Translation, Notes) Uni¬versity of Wales Press, 1997, 410 pp.
II. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS
- [2014] ‘Once again, Herodotus, the ?e?t??, the source of the Danube, and the Pillars of Hercules’, Celtic Art in Europe: making connections. Essays in honour of Vincent Megaw on his 80th birthday, ed. C. Gosden, S. Crawford, K. Ulmschneider. Oxford, Oxbow Books. (forthcoming)
- [2014] ‘On the Debate over the Classification of the Language of the South-Western (SW) Inscriptions, also known as Tartessian’ (forthcoming)
- [2013] ‘La fórmula epigráfica tartesia a la luz de los descubrimientos de la necrópolis de Medellín’, Acta Palaeohispanica XI, Palaeohispanica 12 (2013), pp. 347–57. I.S.S.N.: 1578-5386.
- [2013] ‘Las inscripciones del suroeste y el Tarteso de la arqueología y de la historia’, in J. Alvar & J. Campos, Tarteso, el emporio del metal, 541–58. Córdoba: Editorial Almuzara.
- [2013] ‘Waiting for Gododdin: Thoughts on Taliesin and Iudic-Hael, Catraeth, and Unripe Time in Celtic Studies’, in A. Woolf, Beyond the Gododdin: Dark Age Scotland in Medieval Wales. The Proceedings of a Day Conference held on 19 Februrary 2005, St John’s House Papers 13, 177–204. St Andrews, Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St Andrews.
- [2012] ‘Tartessian as Celtic and Celtic from the West: both, only the first, only the second, neither’, in D. Le Brise, Aires Linguistiques Aires Culturelles. Études de concordances en Europe occidentale : zones Manche et Atlantique, pp. 77–92. Brest: Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique / Université de Bretagne Occidentale.
- [2009] ‘A Case for Tartessian as a Celtic Language’, Palaeohispanica 9, 339–51.
- [2009] ‘On Celts Calling Themselves “Celts” and Related Questions’, Studia Celtica 43, 73–86.
- [2009] ‘Tartessian, Europe’s Newest and Oldest Celtic Language’, History Ireland (March/April 2009) 17–20.
- [2007] ‘Celtic Studies’, in. A. Deyermond, A Century of British Medieval Studies, Oxford: British Academy/OUP (2007) ISBN 978–0–19–7263395–2, pp. 235–61.
- [2007] ‘Mapping Celticity, Mapping Celticization’, in C. Gosden, H. Hamerow, P. de Jersey, and G. Lock, Communities and Connections: Essays in Honour of Barry Cunliffe, Oxford: OUP (2007) ISBN 978–0–19–923034–1, pp. 263–86.
- [2005] ‘Why Was Welsh Literature First Written Down?’ in H. Fulton, Medieval Celtic Literature and Society, Dublin: Four Courts Press (2005) ISBN 1 85182 928 8, 15–31.
- [2005] ‘De sancto Iudicaelo rege Historia and Its Implications for the Welsh Taliesin’, in Joseph Falaky Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones (edd.) Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, CSANA Yearbook 3–4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005, 247–62.
- [2003] ‘Celts, Britons, and Gaels—Names, Peoples, and Identities’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 2002, NS 9 (2003) 41–56.
- [2003] ‘Some Thoughts on Ethnic Identity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Future of Celtic Studies’, in M. Herbert and K. Murray (edd.), Retrospect and Prospect in Celtic Studies: Proc. 11th International Congress of Celtic Studies 25–31 July 1999, Dublin: Four Courts Press (2003) ISBN 1 85182 770 6, 75–92.
- [2003] ‘Marwnad Cunedda a Diwedd y Brydain Rufeinig’, in P. Russell (ed.), Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh Language before 1500, gol.. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications,171–97. ISBN 1 891271 10 5
- [2003] ‘The Early Chronology for St Patrick (c. 351–c. 428): Some New Ideas and Possibilities’, in J. Cartwright (ed.), Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults, Cardiff: University of Wales Press,102–22.
- [2001] ‘Celtoscepticism: Some Intellectual Sources and Ideological Implications’, Indo-European Studies Bulletin 9/2,1–8.
- [2000] ‘On the Origins of the Old Irish Terms Goídil and Goídelc’, in G. Evans, B. K. Martin and J. W. Wooding, Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 3, Sydney: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Sydney. 2000 (sic) ISBN 1 86487 380 9, 3–16.
- [2000] ‘Fled Bricrenn in its Broader Celtic Context’, in P. Ó Riain (ed.), Fled Bricrenn: Reassessments, Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 10, Dublin, 15–39.
- [1999] ‘The Place of Y Gododdin in the History of Scotland’, in R. Black, W. Gillies, R. Ó Maolalaigh (edd.), Celtic Connections: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies, Vol. 1. Language, Literature, History, Culture, Tuckwell Press: East Linton, 199–210.
- [1999] ‘A Swallowed Onomastic Tale in Cath Maige Mucrama?’, in J. Carey, J. Koch, P.-Y. Lambert (edd.), Ildánach Ildírech: A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana, 63–80.
- (1996 [for 1993]) ‘Obscurity and the Figure of Taliesin’, Medi¬evalia 19, 41–73.
- ‘The Celtic Lands’, in N. Lacy, Medieval Arthurian Litera¬ture: A Guide to Recent Research, New York: Garland, 239–322.
- [1995] ‘Further Thoughts on Indo-European gwh in Celtic’, in J. F. Eska, R. G. Gruffydd, N. Jacobs (edd.), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica: Essays in honour of D. E. Evans on his sixty-fifth birthday, (Cardiff and Dublin,) 79–95.
- [1995] ‘The Conversion of Ireland and the Emergence of the Old Irish Language, AD 367–637’, Emania xiii [‘Focus on the Origins of Early Christian Ireland’] (1995) 39–50.
- [1994] ‘Windows on the Iron Age, 1964–1994’, in Ulidia: Pro¬ceedings of the First International Confer¬ence on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, ed. J. P. Mallory and G. Stockman (Belfast, 1994) 229–37.
- [1993] ‘Thoughts on the Ur-Godo?in: Rethinking Aneirin and Myny?awc Mwynvawr’, Language Sciences 15.2, 81–9.
- [1992] ‘Gallo-Brittonic vs. Insular Celtic: The Inter-rela¬tion¬ships of the Celtic Languages Recon-sidered’, in Bretagne et pays celtiques — langues, histoire, civilisation: Mélanges offerts à la mémoire de Léon Fleuriot, ed. Gw. Le Menn, J.-Y. Le Moing (Saint-Brieuc and Rennes, 1992) 471–95.
- [1992] ‘Gallo-Brittonic Tasc(i)ouanos “Badger-slayer” and the Reflex of Indo-European *gwh’, Jour-nal of Celtic Linguistics 1, 101–18.
- [1992] ‘Further to tongu do dia toinges mo thuath [“Mi a dyngaf dynged it”], &c.’, Études Celtiques 29, 249–61.
- [1991] ‘On the Prehistory of Brittonic Syntax’, in J. Fife, E. Poppe (edd.), Studies in Brythonic Word Order, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 83, Amsterdam, 1–43.
- [1991] ‘Ériu, Alba, Letha: When Was a Language Ances¬tral to Gaelic First Spoken in Ireland?’, Emania ix (1991 [‘Focus on the Origins of the Irish’]) 17–27.
- [1991] ‘Gleanings from the Gododdin and Other Early Welsh Texts’, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 38, 111–18.
- [1990] ‘Thoughts on Celtic Philology and Philologists’, Comparative Literature Studies 27.1, 31–6.
- [1990] ‘*Cothairche, Esposito’s Theory, and Neo-Celtic Lenition’, in A. Bammesberger, A. Wollmann (edd.), Britain 400–600: Language and History, Heidelberg, 179–202.
- [1990] ‘Brân, Brennos: An Instance of Early Gallo-Brittonic History and Mythology’, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 20,1–20.
- [1990] ‘Some Etymologies Reflecting on the Mythology in the Mabinogi’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 9, 1989, 1–11.
- [1989] ‘Neo-Brittonic Spirants from Old Celtic Gemi¬nates’, Ériu 40, 119–28.
- [1988] ‘The Cynfeirdd Poetry and the Language of the Sixth Century’, in B. F. Roberts (ed.), Early Welsh Poetry: Studies in the Book of Aneirin, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 17–41.
- [1987] ‘Prosody and the Old Celtic Verbal Complex’, Ériu 38, 143–76.
- [1987] ‘llawr en assed “the Laureate Hero in the War-chariot” (C[anu] A[neirin] 932): Some Recol¬lec-tions of the Iron Age in the Gododdin’, Études Celtiques 24, 253–78.
- [1987] ‘A Welsh Window on the Iron Age: Manawydan, Mandubracios’, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 14, 17–52
- [1987] ‘New Thoughts on Albion, Ierne, and the “Pretanic Isles”’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 6/7, 1–35.
- [1985–6] ‘When Was Welsh Literature First Written Down?’, Studia Celtica 20/21, 43–6.
- [1985] ‘Emphasis and Movement in Gaulish’, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 32, 1–37.
- [1984] ‘gwydanhor, gwydyanhawr, clywanhor’, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 31, 87–92.
- [1983] ‘The Sentence in Gaulish’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 3, 169–216.
- [1983] ‘The Loss of Final Syllables and Loss of Declen¬sion in Brittonic’, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 30, 201–33.
- [1982] ‘Gaulish eti-c, e??i-c < Indo-European *esti-kwe?’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium ii (1982) 89–113.
- [1980] ‘The Stone of the Weni-kones’ [= maen gwynngwn (CA 83)], Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 29 (1980) 87–9.