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This volume brings together ten chapters on the Celtic languages, using
the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. The leading research-
ers in the field examine Welsh, Irish, Breton and Scots Gaelic in a
comparative perspective, making reference to recent work on English,
French, Arabic, German and other languages. The editors have pro-
vided a substantial introduction which seeks to make the volume acces-
sible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and also to
Celtic specialists who are less familiar with the theoretical framework
underpinning the work.
The syntax of the Celtic languages
makes a substantial contribution
both to linguistic theory and to our understanding of the Celtic lan-
guages. It will appeal to those interested in comparative syntax and to
those specializing in the Celtic languages.
The syntax of the Celtic languages
A comparative perspective
edited by
ROBERT D. BORSLEY
and
IAN ROBERTS
University of Wales, Bangor
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© Cambridge University Press 1996
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no reproduction of any part may take place without
the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 1996
This digitally printed first paperback version 2005
A catalogue recordfor this publication is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
The syntax of the Celtic languages: a comparative perspective / edited by Robert
D. Borsley and Ian Roberts.
p.
cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0 521 48160 0 (hardback)
1. Celtic languages — Syntax. I. Borsley, Robert D. II. Roberts, Ian G.
PB1071.S96 1996
491.6-dc20 95-14193 CIP
ISBN-13 978-0-521-48160-1 hardback
ISBN-10 0-521-48160-0 hardback
ISBN-13 978-0-521-02324-5 paperback
ISBN-10 0-521-02324-6 paperback
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Robert D. Borsley and Ian Roberts
1 Long head movement in Breton
Robert D. Borsley, Maria-Luisa Rivero and Janig Stephens
2 Some syntactic effects of suppletion in the Celtic copulas
Randall Hendrick
3 Fronting constructions in Welsh
Maggie Tallerman
4
Bod
in the present tense and in other tenses
Alain Rouveret
5 Pronominal enclisis in VSO languages
Ian Roberts and Ur Shlonsky
6 Aspect, agreement and measure phrases in Scottish Gaelic
David Adger
page
viii
1
53
75
97
125
171
200
7 A minimalist approach to some problems of Irish word order 223
Jonathan David Bobaljik and Andrew Carnie
8 Subjects and subject positions in Irish
James McCloskey
9 Negation in Irish and the representation of monotone
decreasing quantifiers
Paolo Acquaviva
10 On structural invariance and lexical diversity in VSO
languages: arguments from Irish noun phrases
Nigel Duffield
References
Index
241
284
314
341
357
Contributors
Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin
David Adger, University of York
Jonathan David Bobaljik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert D. Borsley, University of Wales, Bangor
Andrew Carnie, University of Calgary
Nigel Duffield, McGill University
Randall Hendrick, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz
Maria-Luisa Rivero, University of Ottawa
Ian Roberts, University of Wales, Bangor
Alain Rouveret, Universite de Paris VIII
Ur Shlonsky, Universite de Geneve
Janig Stephens, Cardiff Institute of Higher Education
Maggie Tallerman, University of Durham

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