A remnant of this system I’ve recently noticed in Modern Irish:
tharla sé orm ‘he happened upon me’ (“subject”, ergative-type pronoun)
vs
tharla anseo é ‘he happened to be here’ (“object”, absolutive-type)
You get examples like go dtarla ré cosaibh … í ‘so that she met (a figure’s) feet’ (“object”) versus tarladar ladrainn … ris ‘robbers happened upon him’ (noun subject + verb agreement) in Keating.
#linguistics #syntax #Irish #Gaeilge #ClassicalGaelic #EarlyModernIrish #MiddleIrish @gaeilge
The University of Bonn has announced the programme for this year's Rudolf Thurneysen Colloquium. Papers are in English und auf Deutsch, with many Irish language topics to be discussed. The colloquium runs 29-31 August.
More info (auf Deutsch), including download links to PDFs of the schedule and abstracts, can be found here:
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/en/aktuelles/tagungen
#Irish #Gaeilge #UniBonn #OldIrish #MiddleIrish #medieval #CelticStudies #linguistics
A great article by Mícheál Hoyne showing that #MiddleIrish was developing an absolutive-ergative alignment in its personal pronouns. This survived to an extent in Classical Gaelic, but (mostly) disappeared later.
The use of “object” pronouns with the copula in Modern #Irish are a remnant thereof too.
https://dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/1104/
#syntax #OldIrish #linguistics #ergative #splitergativity #Gáoidhealg #Gaoidhealg #Sengoídelc
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