Former Faculty
M.J. Connolly
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
M.J. Connolly
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: cnnmj@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- A.B., Boston College
Courses
The Language of Liturgy
General Linguistics
Classical Armenian
Sanskrit
History and Structure of Latin
Old Irish
Early Slavic Linguistics and Texts
Structure of Modern Russian
Historical Linguistics
Studies in Words
Phonology
Research Interests
Poetics of liturgical language
Russian accentual morphophonemics
Morophological systems (isomorphism) esp Classical Armenian and Early Irish
Semiotics of Medieval and Renaissance musical notation
Acoustic phonology and acoustics of musical instrument articulations Text underlay in musical composition.
Selected Publications
Language at prayer. Studies in liturgical poetics.
in preparation.
Kidnapping the Gospel.
in Netzer, Nancy [ed]: Sacred|Secular. 2006.
[curatorial article on three medieval Armenian liturgical manuscripts in the Boston Public Library for the exhibition catalogue]
Carmina Burana. Medieval songs [from the Benediktbeuren manuscript (ca. 1230)]. The Boston Camerata, The Harvard University Choir, Joel Cohen music director.
(Erato) Paris, 1996. [compact disc] 0630-14987-2
[Complete preparation of Latin, Middle High German, and Old French text editions and accompanying essay: Zur Sprache der Carmina Burana / The language of the Carmina Burana,]
Black, Henry Campbell: Black’s law dictionary. Definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern. Sixth edition.
(West Publishing) St Paul MN, 1990(6). 0-314-76271-X/-77165-4.
[Contributing author,Latin and foreign legal terms, pronunciation system, and transcription for this and the earlier fifth edition].
Ciconia, Johannes [-1411]:
The works of Johannes Ciconia. Edited by Margaret Bent and Anne Hallmark; Latin texts edited by M.J. Connolly.
(Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre) Monaco, 1985.
Polyphonic music of the fourteenth century, Volume XXIV.
Kodjak, Andrej / M.J. Connolly / Krystyna Pomorska (eds):
Structural analysis of narrative texts.
(Slavica) Columbus OH, 1980. 0-89357-071-0.
NYU Slavic papers, vol. II.
A descriptive normalization of the Classical Armenian nominal system.
Revue des études arméniennes NS IX (1972 [1973]).1–45.
A poetic dimension in liturgical prose. [with L.G. Jones]
in M. Schatkin & D. Neiman (eds): The heritage of the early church Essays in honor of Georges Vasilievich Florovsky on the occasion of his eightieth birthday
(Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium) Roma, 1973
Analecta orientalia christiana, 163
On verbs of being in Classical Armenian.
in W.M. Verhaar (ed): The verb ‘be’ and its synonyms. Philosophical and grammatical studies, 3.
Foundations of language, supplementary series, volume 8