Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

IRISH STUDIES: EARLY IRISH

IRISH STUDIES: EARLY IRISH 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/irish-studies-early-irish-l7epiQNMX7

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0084-4152
eISSN
2222-4297
DOI
10.1163/22224297-90002823
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

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

Journal

The Year’s Work in Modern Language StudiesBrill

Published: Mar 13, 1987

There are no references for this article.