The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces
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Anders Ahlqvist✝
Abstract
The early medieval Irish text on language, known as Auraicept na nÉces “The Scholars’ Primer”, contains much that is of interest to historians of linguistics, including extensive nominal paradigms. Its rather fewer verbal ones have been less thoroughly studied. The purpose of this paper is to look at these in detail, from a number of different perspectives, including manuscripts and sources, thereby providing relevant texts as found in most of the witnesses known so far.
Abstract
The early medieval Irish text on language, known as Auraicept na nÉces “The Scholars’ Primer”, contains much that is of interest to historians of linguistics, including extensive nominal paradigms. Its rather fewer verbal ones have been less thoroughly studied. The purpose of this paper is to look at these in detail, from a number of different perspectives, including manuscripts and sources, thereby providing relevant texts as found in most of the witnesses known so far.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgements vii
- Abbreviations ix
- List of plates xiii
- Notes on contributors xv
- Editors’ introduction 1
- Allegory, the áes dána and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature 11
- Cryptography and the alphabet in the “Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin” 35
- Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word” 65
- The expression of “sense, meaning, signification” in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses 85
- The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces 101
- The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts 113
- Teaching between the lines 133
- The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae 149
- Poetry by numbers 161
- Gramadeg Gwysanau 181
- Master list of references 201
- Index of manuscripts 219
- Index of subjects 221
- Index of terms by language 225
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgements vii
- Abbreviations ix
- List of plates xiii
- Notes on contributors xv
- Editors’ introduction 1
- Allegory, the áes dána and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature 11
- Cryptography and the alphabet in the “Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin” 35
- Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word” 65
- The expression of “sense, meaning, signification” in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses 85
- The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces 101
- The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts 113
- Teaching between the lines 133
- The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae 149
- Poetry by numbers 161
- Gramadeg Gwysanau 181
- Master list of references 201
- Index of manuscripts 219
- Index of subjects 221
- Index of terms by language 225
