Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex / / Carlos García-Castillero.

Austin’s words on page 1 of his seminal work How to do things with words are valid for this study on clause typing in the Old Irish verbal complex: “The phenomenon to be discussed is very widespread and obvious, and it cannot fail to have been already noticed, at least here and there, by others. Yet...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 339
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXV, 397 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Aims and structure of the study
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Part I: Preliminary chapters
  • 1 Old Irish and the notion of clause typing
  • 2 The Old Irish verbal complex: Morphological structure and components
  • 3 The syntax of the Old Irish verbal complex: Unmarked and marked word orders
  • Part II: The Old Irish clause types
  • 4 Declarative and relative clause types
  • 5 Subordination in Old Irish
  • 6 Wh‑interrogative clause type
  • 7 Polar interrogative, responsive, and imperative clause types
  • Part III: The Old Irish paradigm of clause types
  • 8 The Old Irish paradigm of clause types
  • 9 Clause types in the present indicative of the Old Irish substantive verb and copula
  • 10 Personal pronouns and clause typing in Old Irish
  • 11 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index