[Lingtyp] Coordinating compounds in modern Celtic languages

[giorgio.arcodia at unimib.it]

Dear colleagues,

I am currently working on a typological study of 
coordinating compounds, and I am looking for data from 
modern Celtic languages.

Browsing the literature, I found out that Old Irish had 
dvandva-type coordinating compounds as e.g. cennainim 
'head and soul', but all the examples I found for Modern 
Celtic languages are of asymmetrical (non-coordinate) 
compounds. I would be especially interested to know if any 
of those survived into any modern Celtic language, and if 
there are any compounds of the actor-director type (i.e. 
describing an entity in two roles).

Best,

Giorgio F. Arcodia

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Prof. Dr. Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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