The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish : : Selected Studies from a Descriptive, Historical and Comparative Point of View. New Edition with Additional Notes and an Extended Bibliography / / Pádraig MacCoisdealbha; ed. by Graham R. Isaac.

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• VerfasserIn: MacCoisdealbha, Pádraig,
• HerausgeberIn: Isaac, Graham R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2012]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie , 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Editor's Preface
• Author's Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Cataphora and the copular sentence
• 3. Synchronic and diachronic aspects of various copular sentence types
• 4. Resumptive constructions: topicalization
• 5. The cleft sentence
• 6. 'Bergin's Law'and the cleft sentence
• Appendix
• Editor's Notes
• Bibliography