William Lamb

Scottish Gaelic (eBook, ePUB)

A Comprehensive Grammar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429581434
• Artikelnr.: 72271316

Autorenporträt

William Lamb is Professor of Gaelic Ethnology and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Baltimore, Lamb spent over a decade living in a Gaelic-speaking community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables

List of Figures

A note on examples, paradigms and linguistic terminology

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 Gaelic spelling and pronunciation

3 Words and word classes

4 Basic syntax: phrases, clauses and grammatical relations

5 Common Nouns

6 Pronouns

7 Adjectives

8 Determiners

9 Word formation

10 Proper nouns

11 Prepositions

12 Numerals and numerical systems

13 The Gaelic verbal system

14 Semantic verbs

15 Conjunctions and verbal particles

16 The copula

17 Verbal noun cores and their arguments

18 Auxiliary verbs and aspectual marking

19 Impersonals and passives

20 Questions and tags

21 Clause combinations

22 Complement clauses

23 Relative Clauses

24 Modality

25 Adverbs and adverbials

26 Focussing

27 Formulaic Phrases

Bibliography

Corpora

Dialect studies

Gaelic dictionaries

Gaelic grammars and guides

General references

Gaelic Index

General Index

Glossary of grammatical terms