Syntactic Structures in Irish-Language Proverbs
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2012
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Resumo |
In recent years, linguistic studies into the concept of ‘proverbiality’ have provided paremiologists with a more comprehensive understanding of the form and function of proverbial markers in a wide range of languages. Unfortunately, the Irish language has, until now, not featured in any of these linguistic analyses. This paper seeks to re-address this imbalance and to bring the unique structure and style of Irish-language proverbs to the attention of the international community of paremiologistsfor the first time. This research study applies the general methodology adopted by such scholars as Mahgoub (1948), Silverman-Weinreich (1978) and Arora (1984), toa corpus sample of Irish proverbs and provides both a qualitative and quantitative account of the most salient syntactic structures contained in Irish-language proverbs. Proverbial patterns as well as the collocation of proverbial markers are also discussed. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
Fonte |
Mac Coinnigh , M 2012 , ' Syntactic Structures in Irish-Language Proverbs ' Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship , vol 29 , pp. 95-136 . |
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article |