Bloch-Trojnar, Maria, “Verbs derived from agent nouns in Modern Irish”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 11 (2007): 1–22.
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The paper focuses on verbs which are derived from agent nouns in Modern Irish, e.g. siúinéir 'joiner' – ag siúinéireacht 'doing joinery work', ceardaí 'craftsman' – ag ceardaíocht 'working as a craftsman'. The analysis is carried out in the model of Lexeme Morpheme Base Morphology put forward by Beard (1995), whose cornerstone is the separation of the grammatical and formal aspect of word formation rules. As far as the grammatical plane is concerned, the input and output are specified. The rule operates on lexical, denominal and deverbal agents. The article argues that the resulting verbs form a separate lexical class of defective verbs which are confined to expressing progressive aspect and should be specified as [+progressive/ imperfective]. This would imply that the imperfective aspect in Irish is not only a grammatical but also a lexical category. As far as spell-out mechanisms are concerned, the abstract morphological relation is formally realised by a rule of affixation attaching the suffix: -(e)acht [WXt]. -íocht is not a separate ending but a contextually conditioned allomorph. The paper also briefly addresses the question of a sizeable group of forms terminating in -(e)acht and -íocht which are not attested in verbal usage. Either we have to do with actional nominalizations based on potential present participles or we are dealing with representatives of a separate lexical category, i.e. Nomina Essendi, which happens to be marked with homophonous affixes -(e)acht and -íocht.
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