The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish : Selected Studies from a Descriptive, Historical and Comparative Point of View. New Edition with Additional Notes and an Extended Bibliography.

Intro -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The syntax of the verb in Celtic -- 1.2 'Word order' in language -- 1.3 Scope of the study -- 1.4 A textual approach to the Old Irish glosses -- 1.5 'Style' and the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective -- 2 Cataphora and the copular sentence -- 2.1 Cataphora in various languages -- 2.2 Grammaticalization of the cataphoric type in languages -- 2.3 Cataphora and communicative function -- 2.4 'Prolepsis'/cataphora in Irish -- 2.5 Cataphora in the copular sentence -- 2.6 Subject and predicate in the copular sentence -- 2.7 Ambiguity in class VII -- 2.8 The function of cataphora -- 2.9 Correlatives -- 2.10 Welsh parallels -- 2.11 Common Celtic cataphora? -- 2.12 The Law texts -- 3 Synchronic and diachronic aspects of various copular sentence types -- 3.1 Formal description -- 3.2 The origins and function of classes Ia-Id -- 3.3 Desubstantivization of the demonstrative -- 3.4 The semantic requirement + DEFINITE -- 3.5 Some pertinent literature -- 3.6 Cleft sentences -- 3.7 Summary of copular types -- 3.8 Diachronic aspects compared -- 3.9 The Law texts -- 4 Resumptive constructions: topicalization -- 4.1 The 'nominativus pendens' in Irish -- 4.2 Description of the resumptive sentence in Wb -- 4.3 Resumptive constructions in other languages -- 4.4 Thematic organization - topicalization -- 4.5 The Law texts -- 4.6 Further comparative and historical aspects - Celtic -- 4.7 Topicalization and the relative: historical considerations -- 5 The cleft sentence -- 5.1 Preliminaries -- 5.2 A formal description -- 5.3 The adverb -- 5.4 'Emphasis' and related notions -- 5.5 The function of the cleft sentence -- 5.6 Attitudinal disjuncts -- 5.7 Historical -- 5.8 Literature -- 5.9 Conclusions -- 6 'Bergin's Law' and the cleft sentence -- 6.1 The Law texts.

6.2 'Bergin's Law' -- 6.3 Bergin's Law vs. Bergin's rule -- 6.4 The copula in Bergin's Law -- 6.5 The irregular types and tendencies - a reconstruction -- 6.6 The nature of the language? -- 6.7 Artificial language -- 6.8 Conclusions -- Appendix -- Editor's Notes -- Bibliography.

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