Joseph Eska

Joseph Eska
Competition: US & Canada
Joseph F. Eska is Professor of Language Sciences in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. He studies language change, especially with regard to the phonology and syntax of the Celtic languages. He is the (co-)author of two books and over 100 articles and is the editor of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies and co-editor of Indo-European Linguistics. His co-authored book with Don Ringe, Historical Linguistics: Towards a Twenty-first-century Reintegration (Cambridge 2013), seeks to reintegrate the field of historical linguistics into contemporary frameworks of theoretical linguistics. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Celtic Languages & Linguistics (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), which is intended to be a standard reference work for the next generation. His current project is a collection of studies of the syntax of the oldest Celtic languages, which are attested on the European continent in classical times. He hopes that it will serve as a basis for further study on the syntax of later-attested Celtic languages, which is significantly different from all other European languages.