historical linguistics, Celtic linguistics, morphology, morphosyntax, grammatical number
Biographical Sketch
Silva holds a BA (Celtic Studies) and an MPhil from the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge (Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) in 2015 under the supervision of Paul Russell. She spent the academic year 2012–2013 as a visiting scholar at the department of Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft und Keltologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, after winning a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholarship. She joined the School of Celtic Studies as an O’Donovan Scholar in September 2015.
Selected Publications
2017. ‘The development and typology of number suppletion in adjectives’, Diachronica 34(2).
2017. ‘Collective nouns in Welsh: a noun category or a plural allomorph?’ Transactions of the Philological Society 115(1), 58–78.
with David Willis, 2016. ‘The rise and fall of a minor category: the case of the Welsh numerative’, Journal of Historical Linguistics 6(2), 297–339.
2014. ‘Middle Welsh –awr: the case of the lost plural suffix’, Studia Celtica 48, 139–170. Link
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Dr Silva Nurmio
Name: Silva Nurmio
Title(s): O’Donovan scholar
E-Mail: silva@celt.dias.ie
Phone: +353 1 6140181
Address: School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
Personal page and full publications list: https://dias.academia.edu/SilvaNurmio
Research Interests
historical linguistics, Celtic linguistics, morphology, morphosyntax, grammatical number
Biographical Sketch
Silva holds a BA (Celtic Studies) and an MPhil from the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge (Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) in 2015 under the supervision of Paul Russell. She spent the academic year 2012–2013 as a visiting scholar at the department of Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft und Keltologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, after winning a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholarship. She joined the School of Celtic Studies as an O’Donovan Scholar in September 2015.
Selected Publications
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