Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

Intermediate Irish is a jargon-free workbook examining the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language.

List of contents

1. Focus Structures 2. Relative Clauses II 3. Impersonals 4. Verbal Noun Aspectual Constructions 5. Adverbial Clauses 6. Adverbial Predicates 7. Directional Adverbs 8. Directional Adverbs II 9. Comparison of Adjectives 10.Comparison 2 11. Habitual Tenses 12. Conditionals 13. Causative and Inchoative Structures 14. Higher Numbers 15. Word Formation I: Compounding 16. Word Formation II: Prefixes 17. Word Formation III: Suffixes 18. Subjunctive 19. Verbless Clauses 20. Dative Case 21. More Prepositional Pronouns 22. Compound Prepositions 23. Dialect Variation 24. Inflected Verbs 25. Prepositions and Dialect 26. Is/bí Interactions and Alternatives

About the author

Nancy Stenson is Professor within the Linguistics dept of the University of Minnesota. She is currently researching borrowing and code-switching in Irish; she has taught English as a Second Language, French and Irish. She has written extensively on linguistic diversity, language contact and on Irish linguistics. Her single authored publications include: Studies in Irish Syntax . Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Stenson, Stenson Nancy
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781138137813
• ISBN: 978-1-138-13781-3
• No. of pages: 10
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Grammar Workbooks
• 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; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Celtic Languages, Language: reference & general, Irish Gaelic, Language: reference and general, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)