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García Castillero, Carlos, “Old Irish tonic pronouns as extraclausal constituents”, Ériu 63 (2013): 1–39.

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“Old Irish tonic pronouns as extraclausal constituents”
Periodical
Ériu 63 (2013)
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 63 (2013), Royal Irish Academy.
Volume
63
Pages
1–39
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This paper offers a detailed analysis of the syntactic use of Old Irish (= OIr) tonic personal pronouns and claims that they are employed primarily for expressing extraclausal NP functions (especially Focus, Topic and Reported Speaker constituents introduced mainly by the particle ol). In addition, OIr clitic pronouns express intraclausal functions (Subject, Object, Oblique), for which a tonic pronoun may be employed only in very specific syntactic circumstances. The syntactic analysis of OIr tonic pronouns constitutes the main part of this work, but some diachronic observations aimed at explaining specific features of the syntactic behaviour of OIr personal pronouns are also presented (among others, the systematic avoidance of tonic personal pronouns in the comparative construction with ol, and the use of tonic pronouns for the Reported Speaker).
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Old Irish
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Dennis Groenewegen
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