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Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex

Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex

García-Castillero, Carlos

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm], Book 339

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110680300
ISBN13: 9783110680300
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 6 2020
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 I have not found attention paid to it specifically.
Old Irish, a regular V1 language, morphologically distinguishes six clause types, to wit, declarative, relative, wh- and polar interrogative, responsive and imperative clause types. After discussing the constituency of the Old Irish verbal complex and the pragmatically marked orders, i.e. cleft-sentence and left-dislocation, the form, function, paradigmatic consistency and syntax of those clause types are then analysed in detail. The other main issues of this study are the descriptively adequate paradigm of clause types and the interaction of clause typing with subordination and with non-verbal predication in Old Irish.
This monograph offers a comprehensive view of clause typing, its morphological expression and related phenomena in the earliest Insular Celtic language, and may also contribute to the general consideration of these topics in both the typological and diachronic perspectives.

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