Alexander Falileyev

Research Fellow, AHRC Project on 'Ancient Celtic Place-names in Europe and Asia Minor'
MA (Leningrad), PhD (Moscow), DrHabil (Moscow) Photograph of Alexander Falileyev.

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Email: axf@aber.ac.uk
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Biography

Dr Alexander Falileyev’s research interests include Continental Celtic, Welsh, Old Irish, Paleo-Balkan languages, Indo-European, epigraphy, onomastics, Balkan linguistics, linguistics and archaeology. Since 2005 he has been working on projects on Continental Celtic Place- and Personal Names in the Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University. His prior research positions included these at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1999 –2002) and University of Bonn (1996-1998). He is a member of the Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) and received his qualifications (PhD – 1990, Dr Habil. – 2003) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has taught various aspects of Celtic and is a member of editorial boards of several journals.

Staff Publications

Monographs:

Alexander Falileyev, Julij Emilov, Nikola Theodossiev, "Celtic" Bulgaria: A Select Bibliography. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Historia 2010.

Alexander Falileyev (in collaboration with Ashwin E. Gohil and Naomi Ward), Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names: A Celtic Companion to the "Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World" Aberystwyth: CMCS 2010 [available through pps@aber.ac.uk].
cf. http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/282

Le vieux-Gallois. Potsdam: University Press 2008 (Vernam Hull Memorial Prize 2008).

Celtic Dacia. Personal names, place-names and ethnic names of Celtic origin in Dacia and Scythia Minor. Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications 2007. Second impression with additional bibliography 2009.

Welsh Walter of Henley. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 2006.

Восточные Балканы на карте Птолемея . Кри­тико-библиогра­фические изыска­ния .München: Byblion Verlag 2006 ( Place-names of the Eastern Balkans in Ptolemy’s Geogra­phy . Critical-bibliographical Investigations . (= Studien zum Südosteuropasprachatlas: Band 5, München: Byblion Verlag 2006).

The Leyden Leechbook. A study of the Earliest Neo-Brittonic Medical Compilation. With Morfydd E. Owen. Innsbruck : IBS 2005.

Древневаллийский язык . C.-Петербург: Наука 2002 ( A Manual of Old Welsh, St. Petersburg: Nauka 2002).

Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2000.

 Selected articles:

The Silesian Harii, in Studia Celtica 43 (2009), 201-16.

Nodiadau ar Lyfr Taliesin, in Llên Cymru 31 (2008), 184-186.

Celts on the Margin: Toponymic Notes, in J. L. García Alonso (ed.), Celtic and other languages in Ancient Europe (Salamanca 2008), 145-152.

Two more (possibly) Celtic names from Roman Dacia., in Tyragetia SN, 2 (2008), 275-279.

Лингвистическая атрибуция носителей культуры Триполье / Кукутень. О доверии к лингвистическим построениям археологов (Linguistic attribution of the Tripolye / Cucuteni culture: Reliability of linguistic theories proposed by archaeologists), in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 4 (2008), 571-584.

Roman and Pre-Roman: the Balkans and Hispania. A case of mal, in B. Sikimić & T. Ašić (eds.), The Romance Balkans (Belgrade 2008), 37-44.

Aericura, in Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 12 (С.-Петербург: Наука 2008), 439-445.

Усатовские вожди и прагерманцы: к вопросу о лингвистической принадлежности археологической группы (Usatovo chieftains and Proto-Germanic people: on a recent linguistic attribution of an archaeological group), in Sesiunea sţiintifică a Muzeului Naţional de Arheologie şi Istorie a Moldovei (Chişinău 2008), 14-16.

Notă asupra ISM V 115, in Tyragetia SN, 1 (2007), 323-326 (with Florian Matei-Popescu).

Ad ILB 329, in Thracia 17 (2007), 339-341.

Zwischen Mythos und Fehler: Pseudo-keltische Ortsnamen auf der Balkanhalbinsel, in H. Birkhan (ed.), Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau. Akten des Vierten Symposiums deutchesprachiger Keltologinnen und Keltologen (Wien 2007), 195-202.

The Celtic Presence in the Central Balkans: evidence of place-names, in Orpheus 16 (2006), 27-32.   

In search of Celtic Tylis: onomastic evidence, in J. de Hoz, E. R. Luján, P. Sims-Williams (eds.), New approaches to Celtic place names in Ptolemy’s Geography (Madrid : Ediciones Clásicas 2005), 107-133.

Celtic presence in Dobrudja: Onomastic evidence, in V. Cojocaru (ed.), Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Greek Colonization to the Ottoman Conquest (Iaşi: Trinitas Publishing House / Institute of Archaeology 2005), 291-303.

Ein neues Projekt über ein Computer-Korpus der thrakischen Sprache (with Swetlana Janakiewa), in Orpheus 13-14 (2003-2004), 99-102.

Languages of Old Wales: a case for co-existence, in Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 11 (2003), 18-38.

Old Welsh y diruy hay camcul and some problems related to Middle Welsh legal terminology, in Celtica 24 (2003), 121-128.

The Dry Point Glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior (with Paul Russell), in P. Russell (ed.), The History of Welsh before 1500 (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications 2003), 95-101.

Leeks and Garlic: The Germanic Ethnonym Cannenefates, Celtic *kasn- and Slavic *kesn- (with G. R. Isaac), in NOWELE 42 (2003), 3-12.

CLlH XI. 46 eglwysseu Bassa ynt ffaeth heno, in Studia Celtica 26 (2002), 150-152.