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Irish Nouns Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)

Irish Nouns By Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)

Irish Nouns by Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)


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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.

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Irish Nouns: A Reference Guide by Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)

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 straightforward characterization of nominal paradigms, which also captures important generalizations about the inflection of nouns. Andrew Carnie proposes ten declension classes instead of the traditional five and separates off seven major types of plural formation. He provides fully inflected paradigms for 1200 nouns, and a reference list of 10,000 Irish nouns annotated with their new declension class, their plural type and the form of the genitive singular and common case (nominative) plural. The book also includes parallel information on the inflection of adjectives and prepositions. This unique reference tool will be invaluable not only to language researchers and authors, but to teachers and students of the language, whether they are native speakers or beginners.

About Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)

Andrew Carnie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His work has centered primarily on the description of Irish syntax and morphology within the Generative tradition. He is the author of Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Blackwell, 2002) and Constituent Structure (OUP, 2008),and co-editor of The Syntax of VSO Languages (OUP, 2002), Formal Approaches to Function (Benjamins, 2003), and Verb First (Benjamins, 2005).

Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries ; 2. Inflecting Irish Nouns: Singular Declensions ; 3. Inflecting Irish Nouns: Plural Types ; 4. Pronouns ; 5. Verbal Nouns ; 6. 1200 Irish Nouns ; 7. 10000 Irish Nouns ; 8. The Declension of Adjectives ; Appendix ; Quick Reference Sheet ; References

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NPB9780199213757
9780199213757
0199213755
Irish Nouns: A Reference Guide by Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2008-08-21
364
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