Is and Tha

[Andrew Carnie]

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From: maria at ling.ed.ac.uk
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To: celtling at MIT.EDU
Subject: Is and Tha

I'm currently preparing a small comparision of the semantics of
Scottish Gaelic 'is' and 'tha' and Spanish 'ser' and 'estar'.
I'm particularly interested in the use of these verbs for predication
and emphasis.
Is anybody else working on:
- - predication in a Celtic language
- - the semantics of 'is' and 'tha'
or knows of articles/books/papers on that subject?

I've read the relevant sections in Gillies (1993) and MacAulay (1992),
as well as some textbook accounts.
(The next item on my reading list is a little study by MacAulay
in Scottish Gaelic Studies.)

By the way, I mislaid the ftp-references to David Adger's thesis.
Could anybody supply me with it?

sl\ainte,

Maria

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