| Description |
1 online resource (581 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- A note on examples, paradigms and linguistic terminology -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Brief history -- 1.2 Demography -- 1.3 The development of written Gaelic -- 1.4 Dialectal variation -- 2 Gaelic spelling and pronunciation -- 2.1 Notes on transcriptions and examples -- 2.2 The Gaelic alphabet -- 2.3 Vowels -- 2.3.1 The slender and broad distinction -- 2.3.2 Vowel digraphs and diphthongs -- 2.4 Consonants |
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2.4.1 Broad consonants: beginning of word -- 2.4.2 Broad consonants: middle and end of word -- 2.4.3 Slender consonants: beginning of word -- 2.4.4 Slender consonants: middle and end of word -- 2.4.5 Lenited consonants: broad -- 2.4.6 Lenited consonants: slender -- 2.5 Palatalisation -- 2.6 Syllabic stress -- 2.7 Consonant clusters -- 2.8 Apostrophes -- 2.9 Homorganic blocking of lenition -- 2.10 Avoidance of vowels in contact -- 2.10.1 Elision -- 2.10.2 Postposition and vowel lengthening -- 2.10.3 h-insertion -- 2.11 Other major phonological processes -- 2.11.1 Consonantal nasalisation |
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2.11.2 Diphthongisation -- 2.11.3 Epenthesis -- 2.11.4 Hiatus -- 2.12 Summary -- 3 Words and word classes -- 3.1 Words, clitics and affixes -- 3.2 Lexical word classes -- 3.3 Non-lexical word classes -- 4 Basic syntax: Phrases, clauses and grammatical relations -- 4.1 Noun phrase syntax -- 4.2 Clausal syntax -- 4.2.1 Intransitive clause -- 4.2.2 Basic transitive clause -- 4.2.3 Auxiliary-initial clauses -- 4.2.4 Object inversion and the verbal noun core -- 4.2.5 Clauses with oblique arguments -- 4.2.6 Copular clauses -- 5 Common nouns -- 5.1 Gender -- 5.1.1 Masculine endings |
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5.1.2 Feminine endings -- 5.2 Number and countability -- 5.3 Definiteness and the definite article -- 5.4 Case -- 5.4.1 Basic case -- 5.4.2 Dative case -- 5.4.3 Genitive case -- 5.4.4 Vocative case -- 5.5 Noun types: declensions -- 5.5.1 Type I nouns: masculine only -- 5.5.2 Type II nouns: primarily feminine -- 5.5.3 Type III nouns: feminine and masculine -- 5.5.4 Type IV nouns: feminine and masculine -- 5.5.5 Type V nouns: feminine -- 5.5.6 Formation of the plural in regular nouns -- 5.5.7 Irregular nouns -- 5.6 Conservative dual and dative forms -- 6 Pronouns -- 6.1 Simple personal pronouns |
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6.1.1 De-lenition of thu -- 6.1.2 Pronominal reference involving number and gender -- 6.1.3 Anaphoric and cataphoric substitution -- 6.1.4 Phonological weakness of simple personal pronouns -- 6.1.5 Syntactic flexibility of pronominal objects -- 6.2 Pronominal modification -- 6.2.1 Reflexives -- 6.2.2 Emphatic suffixes -- 6.2.3 Demonstratives -- 6.2.4 Pronominal lengthening -- 6.2.5 Further pronominal modification: relative clauses -- 6.3 Survivals of the nominative-accusative distinction in pronouns -- 6.4 Survivals of the neuter pronoun -- 6.5 Reciprocals -- 6.6 Far and na |
| Summary |
Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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6.7 Quantifiers and other pronoun-like anaphors |
| Subject |
Scottish Gaelic language-Grammar-Textbooks
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Scottish Gaelic language-Textbooks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429583339 |
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0429583338 |
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