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Eulogies

Robert A. Fowkes, 1913–1998

John R. CostelloNew York UniversityDepartment of Linguistics 719 Broadway, Room 504 New York, NY10003
Pages 365-374 | Published online: 15 May 2015

Fowkes Bibliography

BOOKS

  • 1949. Gothic etymological studies. (Monograph 30.) New York: Ottendorfer Memorial Series of Germanic Monographs.
  • 1961. German. [Textbook to accompany a McGraw Hill language course on records]. New York: McGraw Hill.
  • 1971. The German Lied and its poetry. [Co-authored with Elaine Brody] New York: New York University Press.

ARTICLES

  • 1940. “The phonology of Gaulish.” Language 16:285–99.
  • 1943. “Two Germanic etymologies.” Journal of English and Germanic philology 42:269–70.
  • 1945a. “English idiom in Modern Welsh.” WORD 1:239–48.
  • 1945b. “Germanic etymologies.” Journal of English and Germanic philology 44:208–9.
  • 1945c. “Some Welsh notes.” Language 21:96–7.
  • 1946a. “Crimean Gothic cadariou ‘miles, soldier’.” Journal of English and Germanic philology 45:448–9.
  • 1946b. “Germanic *harta ‘resin, pitch’.” Journal of English and Germanic philology 45:218–9.
  • 1946c. “Some Brythonic cognates of English sward.” Language 22:345–7.
  • 1946d. “Two Germanic etymologies.” Language 22:347–8.
  • 1946e. “Welsh etymologies.” WORD 2:48–9.
  • 1947. “Celtic etymological notes.” Language 23:420–2.
  • 1948. “Prosody in the influence of English on Welsh.” WORD 4:37–41.
  • 1949a. “Initial lenitions of loanwords in Welsh.” WORD 5:205–13.
  • 1949b. “Three Welsh etymologies (hufen, bala, chwifio)” WORD 5:77–80.
  • 1951. “Some problems of Celtic vocabulary.” Language 27:146–50.
  • 1953a. “On the etymology of New High German Eingeweide.” Journal of English and Germanic philology 52:96–8.
  • 1953b. “Sanskrit evidence in Welsh etymologies.” Journal of Celtic studies 2: 1–4.
  • 1953c. “Synchronic method and Welsh consonantism.” WORD 9:142–5.
  • 1954. “On the gender of Early English loanwords in Welsh.” WORD 10:66–70.
  • 1955a. “A Celtic side light on to save face.” WORD 11:53–6.
  • 1955b. “Friedrich Hebbel and comparative linguistics.” The Germanic review 30:294–300.
  • 1955c. “On the association of ‘wolf’ and ‘outlaw’ in Germanic.” General linguistics 1:89–91.
  • 1955d. “On the etymology of Welsh baw ‘filth, mud, excrement’.” General linguistics 1:60–1.
  • 1957a. “Armenian in linguistics and literature.” Treasures of Armenia. New York.
  • 1957b. “Gender redistribution in Keltic: A preliminary study.” Studies presented to Joshua What-mough on his Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Ernst Pulgram. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 39–46.
  • 1957c. “Problems in Cymric etymology.” Lingua Posnaniensis 6:90–111.
  • 1957d. “Semantic merger in Welsh through phonetic similarity.” General linguistics 3:21–9.
  • 1959. “Phonological aspects of Welsh-English bilingualism.” General linguistics 4:23–32.
  • 1960. “Teaching Sanskrit to American students—One man's experience.” Shiksha [Journal of the Education Department, Uttar Pradesh, India].
  • 1962. “Eastern echoes in the Wessobrunner Gebet?” Germanic review.
  • 1964. “The linguistic modernity of Jakob Grimm.” Linguistics 8:56–61.
  • 1966. “English, French, and German phonetics and the substratum theory.” Linguistics 21:45–53.
  • 1967. “The argumentum ex nihilo and the placement of Germanic among the other Indo-European languages.” Studies in Germanic languages and literature presented to Professor Ernst A. G. Rose by friends and colleagues. Ed. Robert A. Fowkes. New York and Reutlingen: New York University Department of German. pp. 71–8.
  • 1969. “Some Cymric etymologies.” Studia Celtica 4:74–9.
  • 1970a. “George Borrow and the Armenian language.” Armenian digest. September-October.
  • 1970b. “Heinrich Hübschmann—Establisher of the position of Armenian among languages.” Armenian digest. November-December.
  • 1970c. “J. A. K.” Studies in honor of J. Alexander Kerns. (Janua linguarum, series maior, 44) Eds. Robert C. Lugton and Milton G. Saltzer. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 9–12.
  • 1971a. “Glottochronology and Brythonic?” Studia Celtica 6:189–94.
  • 1971b. “Hrachia Ajarían, linguist.” Armenian digest. February.
  • 1972a. “From Cilicia to Galicia—The Armenians in Poland.” Armenian digest. March.
  • 1972b. “Tacitus' Lingua Britannicae Propior—Germania 45.” Studia Celtica 7:167–73.
  • 1972c. “Thoughts on alphabets—Mesrop's and others’.” Armenian digest. May-June.
  • 1976a. “In memoriam: John Hughes, 1920–1974.” Celtic linguistics–1976. [= WORD 28, 1 and 2] Ed. Robert A. Fowkes. New York: International Linguistic Association. P. v.
  • 1976b. “Metanalysis and reshaping in Welsh.” Celtic linguistics—1976. [= WORD 28, 1 and 2] Ed. Robert A. Fowkes. New York: International Linguistic Association. pp. 187–206.
  • 1977. “Onomastic sophistication of the Gypsies of Wales.” Names 25:78–87.
  • 1981a. “Some characteristics of Modern Colloquial Welsh (Cymraeg Byw).” Bono homini donum. Essays in historical linguistics in memory of J. Alexander Kerns. Eds. Yoël Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard. Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 107–18.
  • 1981b. “Welsh naming practices, with a comparative look at Cornish.” Names 29:265–72.
  • 1985. “Paradoxes in the linguistic geography of Wales.” Geolinguistics 11:39–56.
  • 1987. “Brythonic gender reduction: The Cornish picture.” Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald: On the occasion of his 70th birthday. Ed. George Cardona. Tübingen: Narr. pp. 121–9.
  • 1988. “Features of Welsh and British Celtic onomastics.” Names 36:143–9.
  • 1991. “Verbal noun as ‘equivalent’ of finite verb in Welsh.” WORD 42:19–29.
  • 1993a. “Welsh surnames of occupational origin.” Names 44:288–97.
  • 1993b. “The ‘standard’ Welsh of the 1588 Bible.” Language sciences 15:141–53.
  • 1994. “The International Linguistic Association: A subjective history.” WORD 45:1–17.

REVIEW ARTICLE

  • 1976. Review of The linguistic geography of Wales, 1973, by Alan R. Thomas. WORD 28:230–8.

EDITED BOOKS

  • 1960a. Literarische Auswahl. New York: Cortina.
  • 1960b. Pagine Scelte. New York: Cortina.
  • 1967. Studies in Germanic languages and literature presented to Professor Ernst A. G. Rose by friends and collegues. New York and Reutlingen: New York University Department of German.
  • 1969. Eichendorff's Marmorbild [with an introduction, critical material, notes, bibliography, topics for discussion, and vocabulary]. Waltham, MA: Ginn-Blaisdell.
  • 1976. Celtic linguistics—1976 [= WORD 28, 1 and 2]. New York: International Linguistic Association.

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