Proceedings of the First International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica held at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, 19-21 June 2005. Studia Celto-Slavica 1

This volume contains nineteen articles presented at the First International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica held at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, between the 19th and 21st June 2005. The contributions include papers on a range of subjects relating to links and contacts between Celtic and Slavic traditions, cultures and languages. In addition to papers on early links between Celts and Slavs and the nature of Celto-Slavica, other subjects covered are the scope and achievement of Slavic Celtic scholars, literary and mythological aspects of Celto-Slavic, etymological, onomastic and lexical topics, and comparative linguistic studies of Celtic and Slavic languages. The volume also contains substantial bibliographies, including a bibliography of the works of the late Professor Viktor Pavlovich Kalygin, to whose memory the book is dedicated.

The Centre for Irish and Celtic Studies at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, hosted, between the 24th and 26th August 2000, a very successful and informative conference on Celtic Literatures in the Twentieth Century. The lectures were excellent and the discussions of a high standard. We feel that those papers which we have received merit publication at this time, not only because of their intrinsic merits, but also because they represent the views of the authors on their respective topics at the turn of the twenty-first century and will without doubt be of value to those interested in the state of the modern Celtic literatures.

The monograph examines the nature of definite descriptions in Irish and seeks to identify the principles underlying the use of the definite article in a range of various expressions. Patterns of usage are related to logical and pragmatic theories of definiteness. Monograph consists of nine sections, including sections on anaphoric and first mention use of the article in Irish, on use and non-use of the article  in Early and Middle Irish, use in definite genitive expressions and other.