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Celtic Languages IV. IRISH STUDIES EARLY IRISH By RuAIRi 6 HUIGINN, The Queen's University of Belfast I. LANGUAGE AND ONOMASTICS K. R. McCone, 'From Indo-European to Old Irish: the verbal system', Proceedings . .. (Oxford), pp. 222-66, comprises a wide ranging discussion of the origins of the verbal system of Old Irish. Rejecting a number of hitherto accepted theories and putting forward many new suggestions, McC. offers the most comprehensive study of the subject to appear in over two decades. F. Kelly, 'Two notes on final-verb constructions', Celtica, I8: I-12, deals mainly with the phenomenon of verbal tmesis in Old Irish. On the evidence of a number of examples he casts doubts on the criteria established by D. Greene for distinguishing certain types of final-verb constructions. He also examines instances of tmesis in Audacht Morainn in which the preverb is separated from the remainder of a compound verb, and concludes that only three of the seven examples in that text can be regarded as certain. This is a useful coptribution to a field of study where much remains to be said. I d., Eriu 37: I 85-86, discusses the origin and meaning of Old Irish creccaire, Scottish Gaelic kreahkir
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies – Brill
Published: Mar 13, 1987
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