A Linguistic Study of the Modern Irish dialects of North-west Donegal

本专著将处理与西北多尼戈尔，爱尔兰的爱尔兰语言方言的相互作用和重叠的语言特征的中心集。一般和背景问题包括：所收集数据的性质，这是研究的核心；爱尔兰的北爱尔兰方言在过去250年里的语言历史；接触语言和变体的相互作用，即爱尔兰语、苏格兰语和英语；方言变化的动态和爱尔兰语的未来，现在是一个占主导地位的爱尔兰语双语地区。在专著的核心部分将会有一些章节涉及方言的语音和语音组成，与其他爱尔兰方言相比的小句变化，词汇使用和外借词汇的扩展语义使用；对方言特有的各种句法特征的类型学描述以及考虑到各种人口因素的方言中社会语言学变化的描述。此外，本专著将重点关注某些特殊的词序和其他句法特征的延伸，如wh结构、格标记和各种句子类型的句法移动。这些特征对于分析和促进现代语言学理论的发展具有重要意义。每一章都将与已发表的文献中报道的其他民族方言进行比较。

The present monograph will deal with a central set of interacting and overlapping linguistic features pertaining to the Irish language dialects of North-west Donegal, Ireland.General and background issues include the following: the nature of the data collected which lies at the heart of the study; the linguistic history of the Northern Irish dialects of Ireland during the last 250 years; the interaction of contact languages and varieties, namely, Irish, Scots and English; the dynamics of dialectal change and the future of Irish in what is now a dominant Irish language bilingual area.At the very core of the monograph will be a number of chapters dealing with the phonetics and phonological make-up of the dialect, clausal variation vis-a-vis other dialects of Irish, lexical usage and extended semantic use of borrowed vocabulary; a typological description of a variety of syntactic features particular to the dialect and an account of the sociolinguistic variation within the dialect taking various demographic factors into account.In addition, the monograph will focus on the extention of certain peculiar word orderings and other syntactic features such as Wh-constructions, case marking and syntactic movement across a variety of sentence types. These features are of great importance in analysing and contributing to the development of modern linguistic theories. Each chapter will draw comparisons with other national dialectal varieties as reported in published literature.