Irish Nouns

A Reference Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-921375-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

This book presents the first comprehensive reference on noun declensions in Modern Irish. Whereas traditional descriptions of noun inflection are notoriously complex and filled with exceptions and irregularities, this reference guide provides a systematic and straightforward characterization of nominal paradigms, which also captures important generalizations about the inflection of nouns. Andrew Carnie proposes ten declension classes instead of the traditional five and separates off seven major types of plural formation. He provides fully inflected paradigms for 1200 nouns, and a reference list of 10,000 Irish nouns annotated with their new declension class, their plural type and the form of the genitive singular and common case (nominative) plural. The book also includes parallel information on the inflection of adjectives and prepositions.

This unique reference tool will be invaluable not only to language researchers and authors, but to teachers and students of the language, whether they are native speakers or beginners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carnie, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Preliminaries

- 2: Inflecting Irish Nouns: Singular Declensions

- 3: Inflecting Irish Nouns: Plural Types

- 4: Pronouns

- 5: Verbal Nouns

- 6: 1200 Irish Nouns

- 7: 10000 Irish Nouns

- 8: The Declension of Adjectives

- Appendix

- Quick Reference Sheet

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Carnie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His work has centered primarily on the description of Irish syntax and morphology within the Generative tradition. He is the author of Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Blackwell, 2002) and Constituent Structure (OUP, 2008),and co-editor of The Syntax of VSO Languages (OUP, 2002), Formal Approaches to Function (Benjamins, 2003), and Verb First (Benjamins, 2005).