Iwan Wmffre is Lecturer of Celtic at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is a specialist in the Celtic languages, especially the Brittonic branch, and general linguistics, especially descriptive and phonetic issues. Recent publications include Breton Orthographies and Dialects: The Twentieth-Century Orthography War in Brittany (2007), and the forthcoming A Dynamic Description of Lampeter Welsh: The Traditional Language and A Practical Phonetic Description of Ulster Irish Gaelic, both to be published in 2013.

• Contents: Structuralism’s neglect of dynamics – Labov’s contribution to dynamics – Martinet’s contribution to dynamics – The Prague School and Jakobson’s contribution to dynamics – Problems of definition of concepts and terms relevant to dynamic linguistics – Martinet and Labov – Dynamics: Martinet’s precursors – Some problems of reification in linguistics – What is dynamics in language and dynamic linguistics? – Principles of a dynamic description of language.

Iwan Wmffre is Lecturer of Celtic at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is a specialist in the Celtic languages, especially the Brittonic branch, and general linguistics, especially descriptive and phonetic issues. Recent publications include Breton Orthographies and Dialects: The Twentieth-Century Orthography War in Brittany (2007), and the forthcoming A Dynamic Description of Lampeter Welsh: The Traditional Language and A Practical Phonetic Description of Ulster Irish Gaelic, both to be published in 2013.

• Contents: Structuralism’s neglect of dynamics – Labov’s contribution to dynamics – Martinet’s contribution to dynamics – The Prague School and Jakobson’s contribution to dynamics – Problems of definition of concepts and terms relevant to dynamic linguistics – Martinet and Labov – Dynamics: Martinet’s precursors – Some problems of reification in linguistics – What is dynamics in language and dynamic linguistics? – Principles of a dynamic description of language.

Iwan Wmffre is Lecturer of Celtic at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is a specialist in the Celtic languages, especially the Brittonic branch, and general linguistics, especially descriptive and phonetic issues. Recent publications include Breton Orthographies and Dialects: The Twentieth-Century Orthography War in Brittany (2007), and the forthcoming A Dynamic Description of Lampeter Welsh: The Traditional Language and A Practical Phonetic Description of Ulster Irish Gaelic, both to be published in 2013.

• Contents: Structuralism’s neglect of dynamics – Labov’s contribution to dynamics – Martinet’s contribution to dynamics – The Prague School and Jakobson’s contribution to dynamics – Problems of definition of concepts and terms relevant to dynamic linguistics – Martinet and Labov – Dynamics: Martinet’s precursors – Some problems of reification in linguistics – What is dynamics in language and dynamic linguistics? – Principles of a dynamic description of language.