Transitivity and Subject Positions in Old Irish.
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 c...
| Publicado en: | Transactions of the Philological Society Vol. 118; no. 1; pp. 94 - 141 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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