Irish coordinators

Irish coordinates with free words that stand before the second coordinand: agus 'and', nó 'or' and ach 'but'. The emphatic conjunction is idir … agus 'both … and', which Haspelmath lists among the correlatives whose second member is the plain coordinator. Irish has no emphatic negative pair like neither … nor: Haspelmath records the single word ná 'nor', used after the ordinary sentence negation, which is also the particle 'than' of comparatives.

Main definitions

• Irish.Coordination.agus, Irish.Coordination.no_, Irish.Coordination.na_, Irish.Coordination.ach: the conjunctive, disjunctive, negative and adversative coordinators.
• Irish.Coordination.idirAgus: the emphatic conjunction.

TODO

nó and ach are not in Haspelmath's chapter and have not been checked against a grammar of Irish.

References

• [Has07]

def Irish.Coordination.agus : Coordinator

agus 'and'.

Equations

• Irish.Coordination.agus = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "agus", gloss := "and", role := Coordinator.Role.conjunctive }

def Irish.Coordination.no_ : Coordinator

nó 'or'.

Equations

• Irish.Coordination.no_ = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "nó", gloss := "or", role := Coordinator.Role.disjunctive }

def Irish.Coordination.na_ : Coordinator

ná 'nor', also the comparative particle 'than'.

Equations

• Irish.Coordination.na_ = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "ná", gloss := "nor; than", role := Coordinator.Role.negative }

def Irish.Coordination.ach : Coordinator

ach 'but'.

Equations

• Irish.Coordination.ach = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "ach", gloss := "but", role := Coordinator.Role.adversative }

def Irish.Coordination.idirAgus : Coordinator.Correlative

idir … agus 'both … and'.

Equations

• Irish.Coordination.idirAgus = { first := [Morphology.Morph.free "idir"], second := [Irish.Coordination.agus.morph], single := Irish.Coordination.agus }