MAIRWEN · Mapping Argument Structure in Early Irish and Welsh
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2019-10-01 → 2021-09-30
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 212 934 €
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- 1
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- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Накратко на български
Граматическата структура на подлога в староирландския език се анализира чрез примери, при които той не е в очаквания именителен падеж. Това помага да се разбере как се определя кой извършва действието в изречението, когато стандартните граматически белези липсват.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Mapping Argument Structure in Early Irish and Welsh
This research project focussed on a particular grammatical issue in Old Irish, namely the syntactical and grammatical properties of subjects. Old Irish was the language of texts written in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries CE. We already know a lot about it; we can read the texts that have come down to us from that period and we have a good idea of how the language worked. But questions always remain. Current theoretical approaches to language have done a lot of work on non-canonical subjects, that is, subjects that are not in the canonical nominative case. In English, for example, the usual way is to say “I think”, using the nominative form of the pronoun, but we can also say “methinks”, using the accusative form (normally employed for the object of a verb). Why is that? Of course, if we want to say that the subject of the sentence (often explained as the “doer of the action”) does not have to appear in the case that we associate with it, we need to have other ways to determine what the subject of the sentence actually is. In other words, if nominative case is not always a property of subjects, then what other subject properties are there? This is the topic of the research. Simply said, what makes a subject in Old Irish?
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The proposed project involves a critical examination of the concept of subject and subject properties in Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh. The project has three objectives: 1) to determine subject properties in Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh, 2) to investigate the applicability of subject tests proposed in the literature for the early Indo-European languages, modern Indo-European languages, and, specifically, Modern Irish and Modern Welsh to Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh, and 3) to develop subject tests specifically for Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh. The approach is rooted in the methodology and theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, as well as in comparative and philological methodologies. Applying the tools of cognitive linguistics and construction grammar to Early Irish and Welsh, while remaining faithful to the comparative and philological framework, allows for the generation of the relevant knowledge of the grammar of Early Irish and Welsh that is needed to decipher and model subject behaviour in these languages. Working at Aberystwyth University will enable me to improve and deepen my skills and competencies in Early Welsh, Modern Welsh and Modern Irish. Expanding my current work, which has been focussed Medieval Irish, both laterally into medieval Welsh and vertically into the modern languages will significantly improve and increase my career opportunities. By the end of this project, I will have at least four articles and a monograph submitted for publication, demonstrating my capacity to carry out high-quality, independent research in Early Welsh as well as in Early Irish and theoretical linguistics, in addition to being able to speak and teach both Modern Irish and Modern Welsh at an advanced level, providing me with a strong chance to obtain a permanent academic position in Celtic linguistics.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY · AberystwythКоординаторОбединеното кралство
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз