Irish Syntax question

[Andrew Carnie]

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ReceivedFrom: adg1 at cornell.edu (Antony Dubach Green)
Subject: Irish syntax question

Hello all,

I'm wondering about the Irish construction bracketed in (1):

(1)    Ta/ me/ ag   dul   abhaile [le   mo mha/thair a    fheicea/il]
       am  I   PROG go-VN home     with my mother    PART see-VN
       `I am going home to see my mother.'

Is there a standard opinion about the structure of the [le NP a VN] purpose
clauses?  If not, what are the competing theories?

I'm no syntactician; I'm asking purely out of idle curiosity.

Go raibh maith agaibh,

Tonio

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