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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453647603321

Autore

Carnie Andrew <1969->

Titolo

Irish nouns [[electronic resource] ] : a research guide / / Andrew Carnie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-72391-6

9786611723910

0-19-155015-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Disciplina

491.6/25

Soggetti

Irish language - Noun

Irish language - Study and teaching

Irish language - Word formation

Irish language - Suffixes and prefixes

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Errata; Abbreviations; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Inflecting Irish Nouns: Singular Declensions; 3 Inflecting Irish Nouns: Plural Types; 4 Pronouns; 5 Verbal Nouns; 6 1,200 Irish Nouns; 7 10,000 Irish nouns; 8 The Declension of Adjectives; Appendix A: Mapping Between Declensional Systems; Appendix B: The International Phonetic Alphabet and Irish; Quick Reference Sheet; References

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ;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 straightforwa