| List of tables | p. xiii |
| List of figures | p. xiv |
| Preface | p. xv |
| List of abbreviations | p. xvii |
| General introduction | p. 1 |
| Broad aims | p. 1 |
| Historical background | p. 1 |
| Dialects of Irish | p. 2 |
| Sources | p. 5 |
| Labelling of examples | p. 7 |
| The approach | p. 8 |
| Adaptation of I.P.A. for Irish | p. 8 |
| Broad and slender consonants and the Irish spelling system | p. 9 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 11 |
| Phonology | |
| Introduction to Phonology | p. 15 |
| The approach | p. 15 |
| Common underlying forms | p. 17 |
| Major and minor rules | p. 18 |
| The syllabic system | p. 19 |
| Basic form of syllable | p. 19 |
| Epenthetic vowel | p. 20 |
| Syllabic adjustment | p. 22 |
| The secondary epenthetic vowel | p. 22 |
| Pretonic elision | p. 23 |
| Vowel coalescence | p. 24 |
| Lengthening in place of /h/ | p. 25 |
| Stress | p. 26 |
| Distribution of stress | p. 26 |
| Stress-shift 1 | p. 27 |
| Stress-shift 2 | p. 29 |
| The vowels | p. 35 |
| The vocalic system | p. 35 |
| Vowel separation | p. 36 |
| Raising and lowering of vowels | p. 37 |
| Raising of low vowels to mid-vowels | p. 37 |
| Raising of low vowels to high vowels | p. 39 |
| Raising/lowering between low and mid-vowels | p. 39 |
| Raising of mid-vowels to high vowels 1 | p. 42 |
| Raising of mid-vowels to high vowels 2 | p. 44 |
| Lowering of high vowels to mid-vowels | p. 46 |
| Syllable lengthening before tense consonants | p. 48 |
| Syllable lengthening 1 | p. 49 |
| Syllable lengthening 2 | p. 50 |
| Syllable lengthening 3 | p. 53 |
| Diphthongization | p. 56 |
| Optional diphthongization before ch/th /h/ | p. 56 |
| Diphthongization of /i:/ before the stress | p. 56 |
| Sporadic diphthongization of e /e:/ | p. 57 |
| The vowel /[characters not reproducible]:/ | p. 57 |
| The vowel ao /[characters not reproducible]:/ changed to /i:/ | p. 57 |
| The vowel ao /[characters not reproducible]:/ changed to /e:/ | p. 58 |
| The vowel ao /[characters not reproducible]:/ changed to /u:/ or /o:/ | p. 58 |
| Low vowels | p. 59 |
| Treatment of low vowels in Connemara | p. 59 |
| Treatment of long a /a:/ in Donegal | p. 60 |
| Shortening of long a /a:/ before mh /[characters not reproducible]n Kerry | p. 60 |
| Falling diphthongs | p. 61 |
| Elision of second element before a nasal | p. 61 |
| Change of diphthong ia /i[characters not reproducible]o e /e:/ | p. 62 |
| Change of e /e:/ to /i:a/ | p. 62 |
| Elision of second element after removal of dh/gh /Y/ | p. 62 |
| Change of ua /u:[characters not reproducible]o /[characters not reproducible]:[characters not reproducible] or /i:[characters not reproducible] | p. 63 |
| Insertion of semi-vowel /w/ | p. 63 |
| Variation between ua /u:[characters not reproducible]nd o /o:/ | p. 63 |
| Variation between ia /i:[characters not reproducible]nd ea /a/ | p. 64 |
| Prevocalic glide | p. 64 |
| The semi-vowel and consonant systems | p. 67 |
| Semi-vowels | p. 67 |
| Slender fricatives | p. 67 |
| The voiced velar fricative | p. 70 |
| Merger of semi-vowels with neighbouring vowels | p. 72 |
| Removal of final semi-vowel | p. 76 |
| Treatment of semi-vowel broad mh /[characters not reproducible]/ as a consonant | p. 77 |
| Defricatization of the semi-vowels broad mh/bh /[characters not reproducible]/ and slender mh/bh /[characters not reproducible] | p. 78 |
| Treatment of /h/ | p. 79 |
| Consonants | p. 82 |
| Overview of system | p. 82 |
| Slender quality | p. 83 |
| Devoicing | p. 89 |
| Voicing | p. 92 |
| Liquids and nasals | p. 92 |
| Metathesis | p. 101 |
| Expressive clusters | p. 104 |
| Morphology | |
| Introduction to morphology | p. 107 |
| The approach | p. 107 |
| The concept of extension | p. 108 |
| Regularity | p. 109 |
| General morphological rules | p. 111 |
| General discussion | p. 111 |
| Initial mutations | p. 111 |
| General description | p. 111 |
| Grammatical functions of lenition | p. 114 |
| The insertion of h and hiatus | p. 122 |
| Grammatical functions of eclipsis | p. 125 |
| Non-reversion of initial mutations | p. 131 |
| Final mutations | p. 134 |
| Slendering and broadening | p. 135 |
| Vowel addition | p. 139 |
| The noun | p. 143 |
| Gender | p. 143 |
| Single gender | p. 143 |
| Double gender | p. 145 |
| Gender agreement of anaphorical pronouns | p. 147 |
| Inflection | p. 148 |
| Inflectional patterns | p. 148 |
| Variations in inflection | p. 154 |
| Formation of the plural | p. 159 |
| Long and short plurals | p. 159 |
| Vowel addition | p. 160 |
| Consonant extension and vowel addition combined | p. 160 |
| Other long plurals | p. 164 |
| Marked plural forms | p. 165 |
| The verb | p. 169 |
| Phonetic shape | p. 169 |
| General discussion | p. 169 |
| Verb categorized by the shape of the root | p. 170 |
| Effect of phonological rules on the inflection | p. 171 |
| Use of -oidh/eoidh /o:j/ and -(a)igh /[characters not reproducible]j/ in Category 2 verbs | p. 172 |
| Variation in the use of -(a)igh /[characters not reproducible]j/ and -oidh/eoidh /o:j/ or /ah[characters not reproducible]j/ (D) | p. 173 |
| Grammatical categories | p. 175 |
| Tense | p. 175 |
| Combination of tenses and aspect | p. 177 |
| Mood | p. 178 |
| Personal/impersonal endings | p. 179 |
| Root variation and irregular verbs | p. 185 |
| General discussion | p. 185 |
| The irregular verbs | p. 185 |
| Other features of irregular verbs | p. 193 |
| Nominal and adjectival forms | p. 195 |
| Introductory remarks | p. 195 |
| Verbal nouns | p. 195 |
| The verbal adjective | p. 198 |
| Syntax | |
| Introduction to Syntax | p. 205 |
| Basic word order | p. 205 |
| Major variations in basic order | p. 207 |
| Movement of pronouns to sentence-final position | p. 207 |
| Narrative fronting | p. 210 |
| Deletion following finite verbal forms | p. 211 |
| Repetition of the topic | p. 212 |
| Avoidance of finite complementation | p. 213 |
| Sentence-initial adverbial phrases | p. 214 |
| Omission of the substantive verb in fronting | p. 215 |
| Use of agus/is 'and' or na 'nor' in responsives | p. 216 |
| Three further dislocations | p. 217 |
| The copula | p. 219 |
| Two verbs 'to be' | p. 219 |
| Forms of the copula | p. 219 |
| Distinction between present/future and past/conditional blurred | p. 219 |
| Distinction between preconsonant and prevowel forms blurred | p. 221 |
| Use of preverbal particles and complementizers with the copula | p. 221 |
| Prevention of elision of vowel in ba 'was' | p. 222 |
| Use of generalized forms is e, ab e, nab e, gob e | p. 223 |
| Overview of syntax of copula | p. 223 |
| Linking of nouns and pronouns | p. 224 |
| Linking of nouns/pronouns and adjectives | p. 229 |
| Use in prepositional phrases | p. 231 |
| Use with seo, sin, siud etc. | p. 234 |
| Use in fronting | p. 236 |
| Deletion of copula | p. 244 |
| Responsive system | p. 245 |
| General discussion of copula system | p. 249 |
| Summary of dialectal differences | p. 251 |
| Complementation and modal and auxiliary verbs | p. 253 |
| Complementation | p. 253 |
| Types of complementation | p. 253 |
| Syntactic functions of the complement | p. 260 |
| Extraposition | p. 270 |
| Verbal noun complement as a unit | p. 275 |
| Avoidance of possessive adjective in verbal noun complement | p. 277 |
| Other types of verbal noun complement | p. 278 |
| Verbal noun complements identified by do 'to' | p. 281 |
| Complements subordinated by agus 'and' | p. 284 |
| Attributive use of verbal noun complements | p. 286 |
| Modal verbs | p. 287 |
| Construction of modal verbs | p. 287 |
| Distinctive features of modal verbs | p. 288 |
| Dialectal variation | p. 291 |
| Auxiliary verbs | p. 293 |
| The substantive verb in periphrastic aspectual phrases | p. 294 |
| The auxiliary verb dean 'make, do' | p. 302 |
| Other auxiliaries | p. 306 |
| Summary of dialectal differences | p. 308 |
| Non-complemental subordination and marginal syntactic features | p. 311 |
| Non-complemental subordination | p. 311 |
| Relatives | p. 311 |
| Conditionals | p. 319 |
| Questions | p. 321 |
| Adverbial subordination | p. 322 |
| Diabhal 'Devil' etc. as a syntactic device | p. 326 |
| The assertive usage | p. 326 |
| The conditional usage | p. 326 |
| The negative usage | p. 326 |
| Conclusion | p. 311 |
| Questions expecting negative answers | p. 311 |
| Compounding of neutral coordinators with subordinators | p. 332 |
| Agus/is 'and' | p. 332 |
| No 'or' | p. 334 |
| Proportional correlations | p. 335 |
| Suspensive na | p. 336 |
| Variant order in perfectives with chomh 'so' | p. 337 |
| Glossary | p. 339 |
| References | p. 341 |
| Index of Irish words | p. 347 |
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