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

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ISBN: 9783484429161 出版年：2012 页码：292 MacCoisdealbha, Padraig Max Niemeyer Verlag

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 basic form of the simple sentence, with the usual order of elements, verb-subject-object, is unproblematic from a synchronic viewpoint, but certain sentence types show more complex patterns of syntax, which have important implications for the typological, diachronic and comparative-historical analysis of Old Irish in particular, and Celtic and Indo-European languages in general. Sentence types which contain obligatory cataphoric pronouns referring to elements later in the same sentence are examined in detail, as well as constructions with marked initial topics, and the focussing construction of the cleft sentence.