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Introduzione alla storia della lingua gaelica
Fattovich, Anna
2010
Abstract
This work consists of a descriptive grammar of ancient Irish and is presented as an introduction to the study of Irish in its most archaic stage and is reconstructed on the basis of the testimonies of the literary and legal texts arrived.
Irish Gaelic belongs to the Celtic branch of the Indo-European linguistic family and was introduced in Ireland around 300 BC. With the invasions of the Celts Gaelic coming in all probability from the northwestern part of Spain. Later, around the fifth century BC, Irish Gaelic would also be introduced in present-day Scotland and Man Island following raids and expeditions of various Irish clans in these two regions and their definitive allocation in Scotland and Manche. This appropriation would therefore have led to the introduction of the Irish Gaelic language originally originated in two dialects and from the 17th century to two distinctly distinct Celtic languages. By convention, the three Celtic languages mentioned above, belonging to the so-called goidelic group, are generally termed Gaelic but are further distinguished in the three languages: Irish, Scottish, and Mannese. Of these, only the first two, there are still living and spoken languages in their respective countries. The mannes and the cornice are now extinct languages. The frame is a Celtic dialect of the British branch, spoken in Cornwall, extinct in the 17th century.
In this introduction, the Gaelic language stages were treated. 1) The stage between the V and the middle of the sixth century, which is indicated by the term Gaeilge Ársa or Primitive Irish. 2) The next stage concerning the Gaelic language, particularly in the 7th century, which was defined by Early Old Irish or Sean-Ghaeilge Mhoch. 3) And the language stage between the 8th and 9th centuries for which Old-Irish or Sean-Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach or simply Sean-Ghaeilge were used.
An introduction to the various phonological changes that characterized the passage from the Celtic stage common to subsequent periods of Primitive Irish, archaic Irish and ancient Irish. A summary of descriptive grammar was presented from this last period, starting from the analysis before the nominal system and following the verbal system, also with regard to the phenomena of palatalization, nasalization and lenition. Regarding the nominal system, the paradigms of the forms of the indeterminative article, the nominal classes of vocal and consonant themes of adjectives and nouns, and the forms of pronouns and prepositions have been presented. As for the verbal system, the series of paradigms of the verb forms of both the weak classes and the strong classes have been presented with particular attention to the forms of the copula. For each class both nominal and verbal, a whole series of examples were grouped into tables.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Anna Fattovich, "Introduzione alla storia della lingua gaelica", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010, pp. 252
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