The syntax of the sentence in Old Irish : selected studies from descriptive, historical, and comparative point of view /

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Old Irish is the language of Ireland in the period from the 8th to the 10th century AD, and is the oldest Celtic language well enough attested for adequate grammatical study. The book provides the only available detailed linguistic analysis of the syntactic structure of the Old Irish sentence. The b...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mac Coisdealbha, Pádraig, 1949 or 1950-1976
Otros Autores: Isaac, Graham R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1998.
Edición:New edition with additional notes and an extended bibliography / by Graham R. Isaac.
Colección:Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie ; Bd. 16.
Temas:
To 1100
Irish language > To 1100 > Syntax.
Irish language > To 1100 > Sentences.
Irlandais (Langue) > Jusqu'à 1100 > Syntaxe.
Irlandais (Langue) > Jusqu'à 1100 > Phrase.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
Irish language > Syntax
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Editorâ€?s Preface
  • Authorâ€?s Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The syntax of the verb in Celtic
  • 1.2 â€?Word orderâ€? in language
  • 1.3 Scope of the study
  • 1.4 A textual approach to the Old Irish glosses
  • 1.5 â€?Styleâ€? and the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective
  • 2 Cataphora and the copular sentence
  • 2.1 Cataphora in various languages
  • 2.2 Grammaticalization of the cataphoric type in languages
  • 2.3 Cataphora and communicative function
  • 2.4 â€?Prolepsisâ€?/cataphora in Irish
  • 2.5 Cataphora in the copular sentence2.6 Subject and predicate in the copular sentence
  • 2.7 Ambiguity in class VII
  • 2.8 The function of cataphora
  • 2.9 Correlatives
  • 2.10 Welsh parallels
  • 2.11 Common Celtic cataphora?
  • 2.12 The Law texts
  • 3 Synchronic and diachronic aspects of various copular sentence types
  • 3.1 Formal description
  • 3.2 The origins and function of classes Ia-Id
  • 3.3 Desubstantivization of the demonstrative
  • 3.4 The semantic requirement + DEFINITE
  • 3.5 Some pertinent literature
  • 3.6 Cleft sentences
  • 3.7 Summary of copular types3.8 Diachronic aspects compared
  • 3.9 The Law texts
  • 4 Resumptive constructions: topicalization
  • 4.1 The â€?nominativus pendensâ€? in Irish
  • 4.2 Description of the resumptive sentence in Wb
  • 4.3 Resumptive constructions in other languages
  • 4.4 Thematic organization â€? topicalization
  • 4.5 The Law texts
  • 4.6 Further comparative and historical aspects â€? Celtic
  • 4.7 Topicalization and the relative: historical considerations
  • 5 The cleft sentence
  • 5.1 Preliminaries
  • 5.2 A formal description
  • 5.3 The adverb
  • 5.4 â€?Emphasisâ€? and related notions5.5 The function of the cleft sentence
  • 5.6 Attitudinal disjuncts
  • 5.7 Historical
  • 5.8 Literature
  • 5.9 Conclusions
  • 6 â€?Berginâ€?s Lawâ€? and the cleft sentence
  • 6.1 The Law texts
  • 6.2 â€?Berginâ€?s Lawâ€?
  • 6.3 Berginâ€?s Law vs. Berginâ€?s rule
  • 6.4 The copula in Berginâ€?s Law
  • 6.5 The irregular types and tendencies â€? a reconstruction
  • 6.6 The nature of the language?
  • 6.7 Artificial language
  • 6.8 Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Editorâ€?s Notes
  • Bibliography

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