Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook provides a jargon-free introduction to the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, this Workbook develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners.
This user-friendly workbook includes:
- terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples
- exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text
- translation exercises
- an exercise key.
1. Spelling and Pronunciation 2. Word Order 3. Initial Mutations Overview 4. Articles, Gender and Case 5. Personal Names (Lenition) 6. Place Names 7. Noun Classes and Declensions 8. Prepositions 9. Numbers 1-20 10. Verbs I 11. Verbs II 12. Negated and Questioned Verbs 13. Past Tense of Regular Verbs 14. Irregular Verbs 15. The Verb bí 16. The Copula Is 17. Is vs. bí 18. Idioms with Is 19. Predicate and Attributive Adjectives 19. Other Noun Phrase Elements 20. Pronouns 21. Prepositional Pronouns 22. Verbal Nouns: Progressive, Stative Constructions 23. Verbal Nouns: Inverted Word Order 24. Perfect Forms 25. Possession and Ownership 26. Indirect Speech 27. Relative Clauses I 28. Content Questions
Biography
Nancy Stenson is Professor within the Linguistics dept of the University of Minnesota. She is currently researching borrowing and code-switching in Irish; she has taught English as a Second Language, French and Irish. She has written extensively on linguistic diversity, language contact and on Irish linguistics. Her single authored publications include: Studies in Irish Syntax . Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag
