Nancy Stenson

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook provides a jargon-free introduction to the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138128002
• ISBN-10: 1138128007
• Artikelnr.: 44116878

Autorenporträt

Nancy Stenson is Professor within the Linguistics dept of the University of Minnesota. She is currently researching borrowing and code-switching in Irish; she has taught English as a Second Language, French and Irish. She has written extensively on linguistic diversity, language contact and on Irish linguistics. Her single authored publications include: Studies in Irish Syntax . Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag

Inhaltsangabe

1. Spelling and Pronunciation 2. Word Order 3. Initial Mutations Overview
4. Articles, Gender and Case 5. Personal Names (Lenition) 6. Place Names 7.
Noun Classes and Declensions 8. Prepositions 9. Numbers 1-20 10. Verbs I
11. Verbs II 12. Negated and Questioned Verbs 13. Past Tense of Regular
Verbs 14. Irregular Verbs 15. The Verb bí 16. The Copula Is 17. Is vs. bí
18. Idioms with Is 19. Predicate and Attributive Adjectives 19. Other Noun
Phrase Elements 20. Pronouns 21. Prepositional Pronouns 22. Verbal Nouns:
Progressive, Stative Constructions 23. Verbal Nouns: Inverted Word Order
24. Perfect Forms 25. Possession and Ownership 26. Indirect Speech 27.
Relative Clauses I 28. Content Questions