Description

• Title:
  Sin Í an Cheist a Chuireas Orm Féin: Modern Irish Presentative Constructions
• Creator:
  Eshel, Orit
• Description:
  This article surveys two types of Modern Irish presentative constructions. These constructions open with a presentative element and introduce an NP (entity) or a nexus (a situation or an event involving an entity) into the discourse. I describe the constructions’ poetic functions in literary narratives by Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928). The first type of presentative construction opens with one of the deictic-presentative elements seo ‘here’, sin ‘there’ or siúd ‘yonder’. The second type of presentative construction features as a presentative element of various forms of perception and cognition verbs, such as d’fheicfeá ‘you’d see’ and shílfeá ‘you’d think’. Presentative constructions in literary narrative are used in several functions: expression of a point of view, either the narrator’s or that of a character, scene-setting, explication, and signalling boundaries in the text in varying degrees of cohesion and delimitation. The latter is also used to ‘sudden effect’, adding drama and speeding up story time.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Orit Eshel;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
• Date:
  2017.01.27
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed article;
  Artykuł recenzowany
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studia Celtica Posnaniensia; Vol. 2 (2017); 37-61;
  Studia Celtica Posnaniensia; Tom 2 (2017); 37-61;
  2657-3008;
  2451-4160
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/scp/article/view/scp-2017-0002/30187
• Subject:
  Modern Irish;
  narrative;
  presentative;
  sentence-focus;
  thetic
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/scp/article/view/scp-2017-0002
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other