3 book announcements

[Andrew Carnie]

Dear Celtlingers,

Anthony's suggestion about posting messages about recently available
Celtic material, so I'll start. Three books have recently become
available about Irish that might be of interest to Celtlingers, so
here they are:

1) Nigel Duffield (1995) Particles and Projections. Kluwer Academic Press.
>>> This is the published (and totally reworked) version of Nigel's
thesis. Although unfortunately expensive, its well worth the $. Especially
since it's the first book on Irish Syntax to be published since Nancy
Stenson's book in the 80s.

2) Andrew Carnie (1995) Non-Verbal Predication and Head Movement. PhD
Dissertation, MIT. Available from MITWPL, Dept of Linguistics and Phil,
MIT, Cambridge MA 02139. $12 + $2sh (in the US  -- more outside). Details
on ordering received from mitwpl at mit.edu
>>>> Ok, so this is a shameless piece of self promotion. This is my
thesis, recently finished. It's a Minimalist account of Non-Verbal
predication in Irish. I use the Bare Theory of Phrase structure to account
for some puzzling facts about the copula. There is also a two chapter
discussion about the derivation of VSO order.

3) Anthony Green (1995) Old Irish Verbs and Vocabulary. Cascadilla Press.
(order info from sales at cascadilla.com).
>>>>This book doesn't exactly fall under the rubric of "theoretical
linguistics" nor under "modern Celtic languages", but I'm sneaking
it onto Celtling, since I find it useful and maybe many of you will too.
Its a list of complete paradigms for many of the more common Old Irish
verbs. Beautiful book.

***Soon to appear***

Since I'm at it, there are a couple of soon-to-appears,

Bob Borsley and Ian Roberts have edited a volume called "The Syntax of
the Celtic Languages", Cambridge Univ Press.

Also both Jim McCloskey and Cathal Doherty have papers on Irish coming
out in forthcoming issues of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

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Andrew