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Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex (Hardcover)
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Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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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