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This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions may be employed to create periphrastic verbal expressions to denote concepts for which no simple verb exists in the language at that stage. This latter situation may particularly arise as a consequence of contact with new cultural concepts. The approach of the study is both qualitative and quantitati

English language --- Irish language --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages --- Verb. --- Germanic languages

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This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the book also situates the language issue in the context of current debates on the geography, history and politics of the nature of Irish identity. A comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is adopted throughout.

Irish language. --- Irish language --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages --- History. --- Social aspects

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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 focusing construction of the cleft sentence. The approach is functional and typological, on the basis of a text corpus from the glosses on the Pauline epistles at Würzburg, with further material from Old Irish legal texts. The emphasis is on the communicative content and intent of the sentences of the corpus. The book is a newly edited version of MacCoisdealbha's Bochum dissertation of 1974, previously unpublished due to the author's death in 1976, and includes textual notes by the editor indicating progress, and indeed lack of progress, in the meantime, in areas covered by the book.

Irish language --- Syntax --- Sentences --- Syntax. --- Sentences. --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages --- Irish language - To 1100 - Syntax --- Irish language - To 1100 - Sentences

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An accomplished and original eleventh-century satiric narrative poem, this is the first time this text is available as a stand-alone translation. The volume includes an introduction that places the romance in its rich historical and literary context, and extensive notes that illuminate the wealth of references found in the text.

Tales --- Mythology, Celtic --- Epic literature, Irish --- Irish language --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages --- Translations into English.

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Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku Filppula here challenges this misconception and offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Hiberno-English. Drawing on a wide range of authentic materials documenting Hiberno-English dialects past and present Filppula examines: * the most distinctive grammatical features of these dialects * relationships with earlier and other regional varieties of English * the continuing influence of the Irish lan

Sociolinguistics --- Irish language --- English language --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact --- Dialects --- Foreign elements --- Irish. --- Grammar. --- Style. --- Influence on English. --- Grammar --- Style --- Ireland --- Irish --- Influence on English --- Areal linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages