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Author Carnie, Andrew, 1969-

Title Irish nouns : a reference guide / Andrew Carnie
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages)
Series Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Contents Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Errata; Abbreviations; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Inflecting Irish Nouns: Singular Declensions; 3 Inflecting Irish Nouns: Plural Types; 4 Pronouns; 5 Verbal Nouns; 6 1,200 Irish Nouns; 7 10,000 Irish nouns; 8 The Declension of Adjectives; Appendix A: Mapping Between Declensional Systems; Appendix B: The International Phonetic Alphabet and Irish; Quick Reference Sheet; References
Summary This book is the first comprehensive source of reference on noun declensions in Modern Irish. It contains over 10,000 nouns as well as a generalized description of declension classes, case marking, and number marking in standard Irish, and a discussion of the nominal morphology that affects declension class and case form. - ;This book presents the first comprehensive reference on noun declensions in Modern Irish. Whereas traditional descriptions of noun inflection are notoriously complex and filled with exceptions and irregularities, this reference guide provides a systematic and straightforwa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350)
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Subject Irish language -- Noun
Irish language -- Study and teaching.
Irish language -- Word formation
Irish language -- Suffixes and prefixes
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Celtic Languages.
Irish language -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191550157
0191550159
0199213755
9780199213757
1281723916
9781281723918