PRONOMINAL PREPOSITIONS AND POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN MODERN CELTIC LANGUAGES

• Authors: Stalmaszczyk P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

One of the characteristic features of Celtic languages is the absence of a singular verbal form with the meaning 'to have'. The principal way of expressing possession is through phrases with prepositions (especially Irish 'ag', Scottish Gaelic 'ag' (at), Welsh 'gan', Breton 'gant' (at; with)). Pronominal prepositions (also known as conjugated prepositions or prepositional pronouns), another distinctive feature of Celtic languages, consist of a preposition and a suffixed pronoun, or rather a pronominal personal ending. Thus the Irish and Welsh equivalents of the English sentence 'I have money' are 'Ta airgead agam' or 'Mae arian gen i', respectively, both literally meaning 'is money at/with me'. The paper discusses the properties of pronominal prepositions in modern Celtic languages and comments on some historical developments leading to this formation.

Keywords

EN

CELTIC LANGUAGES; HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; POSSESIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; PRONOMINAL PREPOSITIONS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze; UNIVERSITAS Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych; Wydawnictwo LEXIS
• Journal: Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 62
• Pages: 157-172
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stalmaszczyk P.

• P. Stalmaszczyk, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Wydzial Filologiczny, Instytut Anglistyki, ul. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02645423