Modern Irish - A Comprehensive Grammar

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Stenson, Nancy (University of Minnesota Stenson, Stenson Nancy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781138236516
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23651-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Comprehensive Grammars; Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Celtic Languages, Grammar & vocabulary, Irish Gaelic, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation