Agents in Early Welsh and Early Irish

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - Foreign Language Study - 262 pages
This book is the first in-depth investigation of the expression of agency in verbal noun and impersonal/passive constructions in medieval Welsh and Irish, drawing on a database of texts from different genres: narrative, legal, and annalistic. The analysis is primarily data-oriented, rather than theory-oriented, although it draws on methods and concepts from functional grammar approaches and cognitive linguistics.

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Contents

Irish
3
63
40
P1 and its Markers
180
Summary and Concluding Remarks
201
References 249
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