Article: Compounds and syntactic phrases in modern Irish.

1. Introduction (1)

A subject which has attracted much attention in recent studies of morphology is the manner in which the formation of compounds should be handled. For a representative spectrum of opinions see Roeper and Siegel 1978, Selkirk 1982, Lieber 1983, Fabb 1984, Sproat 1985, Di Sciullo and Williams 1987, Borer 1988, Roeper 1988, Spencer 1991. The starting point for this article is a set of data in Irish. (2) In traditional grammars and descriptions of this language, the category compound is not recognised as such, but at the same time there is a large group of expressions which bear all the hallmarks of words rather than phrases. Briefly, the problem ...

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