<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

Sin Í an Cheist a Chuireas Orm Féin: Modern Irish Presentative Constructions

Studia Celtica Posnaniensia

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This article surveys two types of Modern Irish presentative constructions. These constructions open with a presentative element and introduce an NP (entity) or...

Sin Í an Cheist a Chuireas Orm Féin: Modern Irish Presentative Constructions

Published Online: Jul 06, 2017

Page range: 37 - 61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scp-2017-0002

Keywords
Modern Irish, narrative, presentative, sentence-focus, thetic

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Sin Í an Cheist a Chuireas Orm Féin: Modern Irish Presentative Constructions

Published Online: Jul 06, 2017

Page range: 37 - 61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scp-2017-0002

KeywordsModern Irish, narrative, presentative, sentence-focus, thetic

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Modern Irish, narrative, presentative, sentence-focus, thetic