Structure Of Modern Irish A Functional Account

The book is intended to be of use for a wide and diverse scholarly audience, and it certainly meets this expectation. Linguistically minded scholars of Irish will gain much insight in reading this volume, and undoubtedly will benefit from the examinations of some hitherto unobserved features of the language. Researchers within RRG will profit from seeing the model applied to Irish, a language not previously captured in a functional model. The many suggested expansions of the theory are favourable and worthy of attention from within the RRG community. The book will certainly be of interest to readers outside the intended audience. In fact, one of the strongest attributes of the book is the lead-in accompanying each chapter that introduces the forthcoming topic, which will be of use to anyone seeking the syntactic analysis of a particular construction. Besides, the volume is well-grounded with numerous references to established texts on the chosen topic. This means that each analysis of an Irish construction is founded on a firm and informed theoretical basis.
Folio Linguistica , May 2014