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.
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Author |
Roberts, Ian G.
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Borsley, Robert D.
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LC no. |
95014193 |
ISBN |
0521481600 hardback |
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