Nancy Stenson

Modern Irish (eBook, PDF)

A Comprehensive Grammar

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315302027
• Artikelnr.: 57969366

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