Syntax of the Celtic Languages A Comparative Perspective

Name: Syntax of the Celtic Languages A Comparative Perspective
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ISBN: 9780521023245

ISBN-10: 0521023246

ISBN-13: 9780521023245

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Authors: Robert D. Borsley, Ian Roberts

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This volume brings together ten chapters on the Celtic languages using the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. The leading researchers in the field examine Welsh, Irish, Breton and Scots Gaelic in comparative perspective, making reference to recent work on English, French, Arabic, German and other languages. The editors have provided a substantial introduction which seeks to make the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and also to Celtic specialists who are less familiar with the theoretical framework underpinning the work. The Syntax of the Celtic Languages makes a substantial contribution both to linguistic theory and to our understanding of…

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List price: $51.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Ian Roberts is Teaching Fellow in German and Film Studies at the University of Exeter.



Introduction




Long head movement in Breton




Some syntactic effects of suppletion in the Celtic copulas




Fronting constructions in Welsh




Bod in the present tense and in other tenses




Pronominal enclisis in VSO languages




Aspect, agreement and measure phrases in Scottish Gaelic




A minimalist approach to some problems of Irish word order




Subjects and subject position in Irish




Negation in Irish and the representation of monotone decreasing quantifiers




On structural invariance and lexical diversity in VSO Languages: arguments from Irish noun phrases



References