silmeth 🇺🇦An bhfuil eolas ag éinne agaibh i dtaobh bhunús an struchtúir ina bhfuil ainsíoch bealaí mar dobhriathar? Rud mar ‘bhí sé ag dul _an bóthar_’ gan an ginideach i ndiaidh ainme briathartha. An raibh a leithéid de rud sa Ghaelainn Chlasaiceach nó roimis sin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPLrZ2lP7A
Not as comprehensive as the guide I wrote regarding the copula – but a really good quick and fairly simple introduction to the basics, very nice work by An Spideog!
4 Structures to Understand the Copula | Irish Sentence Structure: 2
My explanation of the use of (in)direct relative clauses with adverbials in #Irish #grammar.
Written on a forum that I _don’t_ want to advertise due to one active toxic user making it not be a safe space. But IMO the explanation is worth sharing.
It’s in the language at lest since Middle Ir. period. In his dissertation on the historical syntax of the copula Kuninao Nashimoto mentioned it for Middle and Early Mod. Irish.
But he makes it sound like it’s limited to placename lore and not productive since EMI.
This rule is well-established and commented upon in Graiméar Gaeilge na mBráithre Críostaí (the most authoritative Standard Irish grammar), by O’Nolan in his books, in Gnás na Gaedhilge by Cormac Ó Cadhlaigh.
This means that there is a difference between:
is Séamus ainm a mhic ‘Séamus is the name of his son’
and
is é Séamus a rinne é ‘it’s Séamus who did it’
sub-predicate pronoun is only put before (definite) name referring to a specific person.
One interesting rule of #Irish #grammar that many people struggle with, but it seems well alive in native Irish. A 🧵.
If a proper name (of person or place) is referring to the name itself, & not to a specific person, it’s treated as indefinite after the copula.
iamBullivantFor anybody interested in specifically Munster Irish these YouTube videos 'Dave Learns Irish' are very good. Crucially, he seems to have the respect of some of those with very good Munster inflected Irish, which a lot of people on social media purporting to 'teach' Irish emphatically do not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkP6u3p0u4&list=PLz53KnWXzYwYYOxSQT5eIA6r8FurjwQuE&index=5
Full Speed Irish Gaelic E01 - The pig
Guides I wrote a while ago about ‘being’ in Sc. Gaelic and in Irish (tha/tá/bí verbs vs the copula ‘is’). They’re fairly comprehensive and, I hope, helpful to learners:
https://celtic-languages.org/Guide_to_Scottish_Gaelic_to_be
https://celtic-languages.org/Guide_to_Irish_to_be
I haven’t shared them in a while, so maybe it’s worth linking them again. :)
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