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Irish (languages Of The World) by Aidan Doyle is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Irish (languages Of The World) about?
This book offers a concise presentation of the main features of Modern Irish. The first chapter contains a brief historical survey of the language, and discusses the present sociolinguistic situation. The next three chapters are concerned with the sound-system of Irish, its morphology, and its syntax, and the book concludes with two sample texts, accompanied by a phonetic transcription and interlinear translation. In the chapter on phonology, the question of morphophonological alternations is discussed in these include variation in the quality and quantity of vowels, shifts in stress, and initial mutations. In the chapter on morphology, particular attention is paid to the morphosyntactic use of initial mutations, numerous paradigms being provided of the effect exerted by various particles on the major lexical categories of Irish. One section is devoted to derivational morphology, an aspect of the language which has been neglected in past studies. The approach to syntax is novel. Rather than merely cataloguing the various traditional sentence patterns found in Irish, the author focusses on those aspects which are of relevance to current syntactic research in general. All three chapt
Who reads Irish (languages Of The World)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Aidan Doyle
- Publisher
- LINCOM Europa
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783895862595
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Humanities
