Robert D. Borsley / Ian Roberts (eds.)

The Syntax of the Celtic Languages

A Comparative Perspective
Herausgeber: Borsley, Robert D.; Roberts, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines Celtic languages in comparative perspective, with a substantial introduction to the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521023245
• ISBN-10: 0521023246
• Artikelnr.: 21583478

Inhaltsangabe

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 position 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
References.