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Brian Nolan - The Structure of Modern Irish - 9781845534219 - V9781845534219
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The Structure of Modern Irish

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Description for The Structure of Modern Irish Hardcover. This book provides a characterisation of the nominal, verb, clause and information structure of the Irish language from a functional perspective based on Role and Reference Grammar. Series: Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language. Num Pages: 304 pages, 41 figures. BIC Classification: 2AFR; CFG; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
Modern Irish is a VSO language, in common with the other Celtic languages, and the order of elements in the structure of transitive sentences is verb-subject-object. This book provides a characterisation of the nominal, verb, clause and information structure of the Irish language from a functional perspective based on Role and Reference Grammar. We include in this analysis the layered structure of the noun phrase of Irish and the various NP operators, the layered structure of the clause and the verbal system at the syntax-semantic interface along with a number of verb valence behaviours as mediated by event and argument ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845534219
SKU
V9781845534219
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Ref
99-50

About Brian Nolan
Brian Nolan is Head of the Department of Informatics at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown in Dublin, Ireland. His research interests range over computational approaches to speech and language processing, the syntax-semantic interface, argument structure and the structure of events in language, linguistic typology and functional approaches to language. He is especially interested in the linguistic description of Modern Irish. ... Read more

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