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Title The Syntax of the Celtic languages : a comparative perspective / edited by Robert D. Borsley and Ian Roberts
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Description 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Robert D. Borsley and Ian Roberts -- 1. Long head movement in Breton / Robert D. Borsley, Maria-Luisa Rivero and Janig Stephens -- 2. Some syntactic effects of suppletion in the Celtic copulas / Randall Hendrick -- 3. Fronting constructions in Welsh / Maggie Tallerman -- 4. Bod in the present tense and in other tenses / Alain Rouveret -- 5. Pronominal enclisis in VSO languages / Ian Roberts and Ur Shlonsky -- 6. Aspect, agreement and measure phrases in Scottish Gaelic / David Adger -- 7. A minimalist approach to some problems of Irish word order / Jonathan David Bobaljik and Andrew Carnie -- 8. Subjects and subject positions in Irish / James McCloskey -- 9. Negation in Irish and the representation of monotone decreasing quantifiers / Paolo Acquaviva -- 10. On structural invariance and lexical diversity in VSO languages: arguments from Irish noun phrases / Nigel Duffield
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index
Subject Celtic languages -- Syntax.
Author Roberts, Ian G.
Borsley, Robert D.
LC no. 95014193
ISBN 0521481600 hardback