Subject positions in Old and Middle Irish

Lash, Elliott

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.06.001

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“…Lash (: 305) further proposes that Pos1, at least, is not exclusively a subject position, since non‐NPs, or non‐subject NPs can also occur there, as was mentioned briefly above. This is so because Pos1 is, as already stated, a position associated with given/old information.…”

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“…This is schematically represented in (2), where X represents the first of potentially several intervening constituents. The abstract schema in (2) gives rise to various non‐VSO clause types, which have been previously discussed in Mac Giolla Easpaig () and Lash (). This paper aims to better understand the factors which influence the use of orders of the type in (2):…”

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“…Lash () concentrates on the different interpretations that subjects receive when placed before or after discourse‐oriented adverbs such as danó ‘also, besides’, didiu ‘therefore, hence’, ém ‘indeed’, íarum ‘then, afterwards, thereupon’, trá ‘so, then’ (etc. ), and the epistemic prepositional phrase [ la NP] ‘in NP's opinion/it seems to NP that’ (Lash : 281–2, ex. 11).…”

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“…The two positions are further distinguished on the basis of specificity: specific items are found before the adverb, while non‐specific items are found afterwards. Lash () calls the two positions Subject‐1 and Subject‐2 respectively. Here, the two positions are instead called Pos1 and Pos2 because it will be shown below that at least the first position is not exclusively a subject position.…”

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“…Lash (: 282–5) argued that the discourse‐oriented adverbs are similar to German modal particles (Coniglio ; Bayer & Obenauer ; Bayer ). Because of their highly context sensitive nature, they are obviously not necessary in every clause.…”

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Transitivity and Subject Positions in Old Irish

Lash

2019

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This article is concerned with some fine‐grained distinctions in the syntax of subjects in Old Irish. Old Irish (7th–9th century) is typically described as a VSO language, but there are a number of sentences in the corpus in which the subject is not immediately after the subject. In this paper two case studies are conducted the results of which show that (a) non‐final late subjects are confined to non‐transitive and ‘atypical transitive’ clauses having the general form VXSY, and (b) the position of final late subjects in the schema VXS# can understood in descriptive terms as ‘right‐dislocated’ and motivated largely in information structure terms (i.e. Topic‐Comment, Focus‐Alternative), although a small residue of examples are similar to the VXSY‐type of case in being ‘atypical transitives’. The descriptive term ‘atypical transitive’ is introduced here to cover morphologically transitive clauses (with accusative marked direct objects nouns, or pronouns that can replace such nouns) that behave syntactically more like non‐transitive clauses. There are four types: negative clauses with bare indefinite objects, clauses with object‐oriented floating quantifiers, clauses in which a pronominal object serves to ‘detransitivize’ the verb, and clauses containing a verb of motion whose direct object is the goal of movement.

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Subject positions in Old and Middle Irish

Cited by 4 publications

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Transitivity and Subject Positions in Old Irish

Transitivity and Subject Positions in Old Irish

Forced to Force? Remarks on the Architecture of the Left Periphery of Early Irish and Absolute/Conjunct Morphology

Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages

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