Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Long head movement in Breton
- 2 Some syntactic effects of suppletion in the Celtic copulas
- 3 Fronting constructions in Welsh
- 4 Bod in the present tense and in other tenses
- 5 Pronominal enclisis in VSO languages
- 6 Aspect, agreement and measure phrases in Scottish Gaelic
- 7 A minimalist approach to some problems of Irish word order
- 8 Subjects and subject positions in Irish
- 9 Negation in Irish and the representation of monotone decreasing quantifiers
- 10 On structural invariance and lexical diversity in VSO languages: arguments from Irish noun phrases
- References
- Index
8 - Subjects and subject positions in Irish
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Long head movement in Breton
- 2 Some syntactic effects of suppletion in the Celtic copulas
- 3 Fronting constructions in Welsh
- 4 Bod in the present tense and in other tenses
- 5 Pronominal enclisis in VSO languages
- 6 Aspect, agreement and measure phrases in Scottish Gaelic
- 7 A minimalist approach to some problems of Irish word order
- 8 Subjects and subject positions in Irish
- 9 Negation in Irish and the representation of monotone decreasing quantifiers
- 10 On structural invariance and lexical diversity in VSO languages: arguments from Irish noun phrases
- References
- Index
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- The Syntax of the Celtic LanguagesA Comparative Perspective, pp. 241 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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