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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Irish; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.1 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: multiple sources
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 4
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.1
Summary
Pseudocoordination with two finite verbs has not been reported as a feature of the Celtic languages, but another construction with so-called 'subordinating-and' is found in Irish and other Celtic languages, and also has been borrowed into English dialects in contact with Celtic; in this construction AND introduces a verbless clause. Given that this construction involves the linking element 'and' plus a dependent clause, this could be considered a type of para-hypotaxis rather than pseudocoordination in a strict sense (cf. Ross 2021); compare also Frisian, for a similar construction type. On the other hand, another classification could consider the modern coordinating function to be pseudosubordination (rather than this construction as pseudocoordination) if this use of AND reflects its etymology as a preposition (here in clause-introducing function) rather than as a later development from the modern coordinating function; compare also the function of AND in Arabic introducing a circumstantial clause.
Subordinating-and construction
Häcker, Martina. 1994. Subordinate and-clauses in Scots and Hiberno-English: origins and development. Scottish language 13. 34–50.
Häcker, Martina. 1999. And him no more than a Minister’s man: the English subordinating and-construction in cross-linguistic perspective. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 7. 36–48.
Ó Baoill, Colm. 1997. The Scots-Gaelic Interface. In Charles Jones (ed.), The Edinburgh history of the Scots language, 551–568. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Page 564]
Ross, Daniel. 2021. Pseudocoordination, Serial Verb Constructions and Multi-Verb Predicates: The relationship between form and structure. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. dissertation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5546425 [Sections 2.2.3.1 & 3.3]