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

这本专著将讨论爱尔兰西北部多尼戈尔的爱尔兰语言方言的一组相互作用和重叠的中心语言特征。一般和背景问题包括：收集的数据的性质，这是研究的核心；过去250年来爱尔兰北爱尔兰方言的语言史；接触语言和变体，即爱尔兰语、苏格兰人和英语的相互作用；这本专著的核心将是一些章节，涉及方言的语音和语音组成、从句与爱尔兰其他方言的差异、词汇用法和外来词汇的扩展语义用法；对方言特有的各种句法特征的类型学描述，并考虑到各种人口统计因素，说明方言中的社会语言差异。此外，专著将重点放在某些特殊的词序和其他句法特征的扩展上，如WH结构、格标记法和各种句型的句法移动。这些特点对于分析和推动现代语言学理论的发展具有重要意义。每一章都将与已出版文献中报道的其他国家方言变体进行比较。

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.