Debate (Caoimhin O Donnaile): Clefting and bleaching

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

From: Caoimhin O Donnaile <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>
To: The Celtic Linguistics List <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: Re: Debate (Cecil Ward): Clefting and bleaching

Elizabeth said:

>>  No topicalisation function, non-contrastive, no emphasis
>>  c)      'S   e      tidsear    a  tha ann am Pat.
>>           COP 3sg teacher REL is in in Pat
>>           "Pat is a teacher."
>>  A straightforward statement.
>>
>>  Notice that the last example (c) has the exact same syntactic structure
>>  (b). However, I would say that (c) is "unmarked" in pragmatic terms.
>
It isn't very marked, but it is more marked than:
            Tha Pat 'na tidsear.
which is completely unmarked.

You are right that no-one would say "Is tidsear Pat" except in
very unusual circumstances.

Caoimhín

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