Chapter Four Forms of the Verb To Be in Irish
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This chapter begins my three chapter discussion of the behavior of non-verbal predication in Irish. In this chapter, I discuss the distribution and syntactic behavior of two different copular constructions in Irish: theTá (Bí) and Is1 constructions. In chapter 5, I look in detail at a word order alternation within the Is class of constructions. The final section on Irish copular constructions will be chapter 6, where I show how the analysis developed in this section and in chapter 5 runs into problems with complex non-verbal predicates, and will present a solution based on Chomsky's (1994, 1995b) Bare Theory of Phrase structure.
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