Nancy Stenson (USA University of Minnesota)

Modern Irish

A Comprehensive Grammar

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Produktbeschreibung

Modern Irish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Irish grammar, providing a thorough overview of the language.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781138236523
• ISBN-10: 1138236527
• Artikelnr.: 58267375

Autorenporträt

Nancy Stenson is Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in Irish and Celtic linguistics and was co-editor of the Journal of Celtic Language Learning from 1995 to 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Background
1. Dialects of Irish
2. Sounds and spellings
3. Initial mutations
4. Terminology
Grammar I: Sentence basics
5. Basic word order
6. Non-declarative sentences
7. Being and having
8. Focus and emphasis with cleft sentences
Grammar II: Building blocks - major constituents
9. Verbs and verb phrases
10. Irregular verbs
11. Personal endings
12. Impersonal forms
13. Verbal nouns and adjectives
14. The syntax of verbal nouns and verbal adjectives: Expressions of aspect
15. Mood
16. Nouns and noun phrases
17. Pronouns
Grammar III: Building the Phrase - modifiers and adjuncts
18. Adjectives
19. Determiners
20. Numbers
21. Adverbs
22. Prepositions
Grammar IV: Complex Sentences
23. Coordinate, complement, and adjunct clauses
24. Relative clauses
25. Conditionals
Concluding chapters: Extra-sentential material
26. Names
27. Greetings, formulaic expressions, and discourse markers