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[Andrew Carnie]

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Subject: RE: Is and Tha

maria at ling.ed.ac.uk asks:
> 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?

A rather ancient reference is the following:
Toma/s O/ Ma/ille, "Verbs of existence in Irish", E/riu vol 6 (1912),
especially pages 57-58, where he makes an explicit comparison with
Spanish. (He also mentions Scottish Gaelic!)

I also have a note that a comment on Spanish occurs in the following
even older reference, but it may not be of much consequence:
Donnchadh Ple/amonn, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge (The Gaelic Journal),
vol 8-9, at pp. 213-4.

Tha mi an do\chas gun cuidich seo riut.
Ciara/n O/ Duibhi/n.

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