The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish: Selected Studies from a Descriptive, Historical and Comparative Point of View. New Edition with Additional Notes and an Extended Bibliography

Editor’s Preface\nAuthor’s Preface\nAbbreviations\n1 Introduction\n1.1 The syntax of the verb in Celtic\n1.2 ‘Word order’ in language\n1.3 Scope of the study\n1.4 A textual approach to the Old Irish glosses\n1.5 ‘Style’ and the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective\n2 Cataphora and the copular sentence\n2.1 Cataphora in various languages\n2.2 Grammaticalization of the cataphoric type in languages\n2.3 Cataphora and communicative function\n2.4 ‘Prolepsis’/cataphora in Irish\n2.5 Cataphora in the copular sentence\n2.6 Subject and predicate in the copular sentence\n2.7 Ambiguity in class VII\n2.8 The function of cataphora\n2.9 Correlatives\n2.10 Welsh parallels\n2.11 Common Celtic cataphora?\n2.12 The Law texts\n3 Synchronic and diachronic aspects of various copular sentence types\n3.1 Formal description\n3.2 The origins and function of classes Ia-Id\n3.3 Desubstantivization of the demonstrative\n3.4 The semantic requirement + DEFINITE\n3.5 Some pertinent literature\n3.6 Cleft sentences\n3.7 Summary of copular types\n3.8 Diachronic aspects compared\n3.9 The Law texts\n4 Resumptive constructions: topicalization\n4.1 The ‘nominativus pendens’ in Irish\n4.2 Description of the resumptive sentence in Wb\n4.3 Resumptive constructions in other languages\n4.4 Thematic organization – topicalization\n4.5 The Law texts\n4.6 Further comparative and historical aspects – Celtic\n4.7 Topicalization and the relative: historical considerations\n5 The cleft sentence\n5.1 Preliminaries\n5.2 A formal description\n5.3 The adverb\n5.4 ‘Emphasis’ and related notions\n5.5 The function of the cleft sentence\n5.6 Attitudinal disjuncts\n5.7 Historical\n5.8 Literature\n5.9 Conclusions\n6 ‘Bergin’s Law’ and the cleft sentence\n6.1 The Law texts\n6.2 ‘Bergin’s Law’\n6.3 Bergin’s Law vs. Bergin’s rule\n6.4 The copula in Bergin’s Law\n6.5 The irregular types and tendencies – a reconstruction\n6.6 The nature of the language?\n6.7 Artificial language\n6.8 Conclusions\nAppendix\nEditor’s Notes\nBibliography