Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex

Name: Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex
Brand: De Gruyter

De Gruyter

Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal ComplexAuthor(s): Carlos Garca-Castillero\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter Mouton\nISBN-13: 9783110680300, 978-3110680300\nSynopsis\nAustins words on page 1 of his seminal work How to do things with words are valid for this study on clause typing in the Old Irish verbal complex: The phenomenon to be discussed is very widespread and obvious, and it cannot fail to have been already noticed, at least here and there, by others. Yet I have not found attention paid to it specifically.\nOld Irish, a regular V1 language, morphologically distinguishes six clause types, to wit, declarative, relative, wh- and polar interrogative, responsive and imperative clause types. After discussing the constituency of the Old Irish verbal complex and the pragmatically marked orders, [url] cleft-sentence and left-dislocation, the form, function, paradigmatic consistency and syntax of those clause types are then analysed in detail. Th.