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Author: Andrew Carnie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-08-21
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0199213755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first comprehensive source of reference on noun declensions in Modern Irish. It contains over 10,000 nouns as well as a generalized description of declension classes, case marking, and number marking in standard Irish, and a discussion of the nominal morphology that affects declension class and case form.
Author: Edward O'Reilly
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Published: 1821
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward O'Reilly
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Published: 1817
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donna Wong
Publisher: Cois Life
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1901176487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Irish-language course is directed at learners whose first language is English and particularly those living abroad and others who have had no exposure to the Irish language in the Irish educational system. The explanations and teaching notes are all in English and the course is suitable for complete beginners right through to intermediate level. The references and examples cited guide learners through the various dictionaries, grammars, dialects and forms which they encounter in the course of their studies.
Author: Ulick Joseph Bourke
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Stifter
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2006-06-12
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780815630722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Stifter’s Sengoídelc (SHAN-goy-thelg) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. As an introductory text to the Irish language spoken around the eighth century C.E., this essential volume, covering all aspects of the grammar in a clear and intuitive format, is ideally suited for use as a course book or as a guide for the independent learner. This handbook also will be an essential reference work for students of Indo-European philology and historical linguistics. Stifter leads the novice through the idiosyncrasies of the language, such as initial mutations and the double inflection of verbs. Filled with translation exercises based on selections from Old Irish texts, the book provides a practical introduction to the language and its rich history. Sengoídelc opens the door to the fascinating world of Old Irish literature, famous not only for the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cúailnge) and its lyrical nature poetry but also as a major source for the political and legal history of Ireland. Stifter’s step-by-step approach and engaging style make his book an ideal tool for both the self taught individual and the classroom environment. It will be of interest to beginning students of Old and Middle Irish, to scholars of Irish history, Celtic culture, and comparative linguistics, and to readers of Irish literature.
Author: Hugh MacCurtin
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Published: 1728
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 3110369036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains a comprehensive description of the phonology of Irish. Based on the main forms of the language, it offers an analysis of the segments and the processes in its sound system. Each section begins with a description of the area of phonology which is the subject - such as stress patterns, phonotactics, epenthesis or metathesis - and then proceeds to consider the special aspects of this subject from a theoretical and typological perspective. The book pays particular attention to key processes in the sound system of modern Irish. The two most important of these are palatalisation and initial mutation, phenomena which are central to Irish and the analysis of which has consequences for general phonological theory. The other main emphasis in the book is on a typological comparison of several different languages, all of which show palatalisation and/or initial mutation as part of their systems. The different forms of Celtic, Slavic languages, Romance dialects and languages along with languages such as Finnish, Fula, Nivkh and Southern Paiute are considered to find out how processes which are phonetic in origin (external sandhi) can become functionalised and integrated into the morphosyntactic system of a language.
Author: Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 3110686635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology. Theoretically, it conceives of derivation as a three-dimensional system. Methodologically, it introduces a range of parameters for the evaluation of derivational networks, including the derivational role, combinability and blocking effects of semantic categories, the maximum derivational potential and its actualization in relation to simple underived words, and the maximum and average number of orders of derivation. Each language-specific chapter has a unified structure, which made it possible to identify – in the final, typologically oriented chapter – the systematicity and regularity in developing derivational networks in a sample of forty European languages and in a few language genera and families. This is supported by considerations about the role of word-classes, morphological types, and the differences and similarities between word-formation processes of the languages belonging to the same genus/family.
Author: Paul Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1317894553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.
