Departmental Research Projects

Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the  Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe (British Academy, International Joint Activities Fund).

Publications: PTOLEMY: Towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe. Papers from a workshop sponsored by the British Academy, in the Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 11-12 April 1999, ed. David N. Parsons & Patrick Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2000).

Concordances to Early Welsh Poetry (Board of Celtic Studies)

Publications: G. R. Isaac, Yr Hengerdd: Mynegeiriau Cyflawn [CD] (Aberystwyth: Adran y Gymraeg, 2001).

Linguistic  Commentary for the Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales (Board of Celtic Studies).

Publications: Patrick Sims-Williams, ‘The Five Languages of Wales in the Pre-Norman Inscriptions’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 44 (Winter 2002), 1-36; Patrick Sims-Williams, The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400-1200, Publications of the Philological Society, 37 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003; repr. 2004); A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales, vols I-III, edited by Mark Redknap, John Lewis & Nancy Edwards (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007- ).

Old Welsh Manuscripts (Leverhulme Trust)

Publications: Helen McKee, Juvencus: Codex Cantabrigiensis. A Ninth-Century Manuscript Glossed in Welsh, Irish and Latin. Facsimile edition with Introduction (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2000); Helen McKee, The Cambridge Juvencus Manuscript Glossed in Latin, Old Welsh, and Old Irish: Text and Commentary (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2000); John Reuben Davies, The Book of Llandaf and the Norman Church in Wales (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003).

The XII^th International Congress of Celtic Studies (British Academy; Board of Celtic Studies)

Publications: Croesi Ffiniau/Crossing Boundaries: Trafodion y XIIfed Gyngres
Astudiaethau Celtaidd Ryngwladol/ Proceedings of the XII^th International Congress of Celtic Studies, ed. Patrick Sims-Williams & Gruffydd Aled Williams (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2007).

The Development of the [Welsh] Language (Board of Celtic Studies),together with the Departments of Welsh in Bangor, Cardiff, and Swansea. [The Development of the Welsh Language (Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg) is now a British Academy Project, directed by Patrick Sims-Williams.]

Publications: G. R. Isaac & Simon Rodway, Rhyddiaith Gymraeg o Lawysgrifau’r 13eg Ganrif: Testun Cyflawn [CD] (Aberystwyth: Adrannau’r Gymraeg, Prifysgol Cymru, Abertawe, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Caerdydd, 2002).

Gohebiaeth Carneddog a Rhai o’i Gyfoedion (Board of Celtic Studies)   

Publications: [in progress]

An Electronic Version of Peter Clement Bartrum’s Welsh Genealogies A.D. 300-1500 (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

Publications: [in progress]

The Incidence of Celtic Compound Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire (British Academy).

Publications: Marilynne E. Raybould & Patrick Sims-Williams, The Geography of Celtic Personal Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2007); Marilynne E. Raybould & Patrick Sims-Williams, A Corpus of Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire Containing Celtic Personal Names (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2007).

A Supplement to Celtic Personal Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire (British Academy).

Publications: Marilynne E. Raybould & Patrick Sims-Williams, Introduction and Supplement to the Corpus of Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire Containing Celtic Personal Names (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2009).

Ancient Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor (Arts & Humanities Research Council).

Publications: G. R. Isaac, The Antonine Itinerary Land Routes: Place-Names of Ancient Europe and Asia Minor (CD-ROM)  (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2002); G. R. Isaac, Place-Names in Ptolemy's Geography. An Electronic Data Base with Etymological Analysis of the Celtic Name-Elements (CD-ROM) (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2004); New Approaches to Celtic Place-Names in Ptolemy’s Geography, ed. Javier de Hoz, Eugenio R. Luján, & Patrick Sims-Williams (Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2005); Patrick Sims-Williams, Ancient Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor, Publications of the Philological Society, 39 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006); Additions to Alfred Holder’s Celtic Thesaurus by Georges Cousin together with an Electronically Searchable Version of Holder’s Headwords  by Llinos Dafis and Ashwin Gohil  and Indexes to Joshua Whatmough’s ‘The Dialects of Ancient Gaul’  by Xavier Delamarre and G. R. Isaac, ed. Patrick Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2006); Celtic and Other Languages in Ancient Europe, ed. Juan Luis García Alonso (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2008); A. Falileyev (in collaboration with A. E. Gohil and N. Ward). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2010).

Early Celtic Linguistic Evidence from Dacia and Moesia Inferior (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

Publications: Alexander Falileyev,  Celtic Dacia: Personal Names, Place-Names and Ethnic Names of Celtic Origin in Dacia and Scythia Minor (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2007; second edition 2009).

Gaulish Morphology with Particular Reference to Areas South and East of the Danube (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

Publications: Alexander Falileyev, Julij Emilov, Nikola Theodossiev, “Celtic” Bulgaria. A Select Bibliography (St. Petersburg: Nestor-Historia, 2010); Alexander Falileyev, Selecta Celto-Balcanica (St. Petersburg: Nestor-Historia, 2012); Alexander Falileyev, The Celtic Balkans (Aberystwyth: CMCS, 2013); Alexander Falileyev, In search of the Eastern Celts. Studies in geographical names, their distribution and morphology (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2014); Cf. also: In search of Celtic Tylis in Thrace. Proceedings of the interdisciplinary colloquium arranged by the National Archaeological Institute and Museum at Sofia and the Welsh Department, Aberystwyth University held at the National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia, 8 May 2010. Sofia 2010.

Grammatical Conservation and Innovation in Thirteenth-Century Welsh Texts (Leverhulme) 

Publications: Simon Rodway, Dating Medieval Welsh Literature: Evidence from the Verbaln System (Aberystwyth, 2013); Patrick Sims-Williams, ‘Variation in Middle Welsh Conjugated Prepositions: Chronology, Register and Dialect’, Transactions of the Philological Society, 111 (2013), 1-50; Richard Glyn Roberts, ‘Arolwg o Hanfodion Gramadeg y Rhifolion mewn Cymraeg Canol Cynnar’, Dwned, 18 (2012), 33-47; idem, ‘The Functions and Distribution of pei and bei in Early Middle Welsh’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 65 (Summer 2013), 57-89.