Plein, Kerstin, and Erich Poppe, “Patterns of verbal agreement in Historia Gruffud vab Kenan: Norm and variation”, Études Celtiques 40 (2014): 145–163.
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[EN] This paper investigates patterns of agreement between the subject and its verb in Historia Gruffud vab Kenan, the early-thirteenth-century Middle Welsh translation of the Latin Vita Griffini Filii Conani. Contrastive statistics are provided for the number of instances in which the normative expectations concerning verbal agreement in Middle Welsh are met as well as for the number of instances which deviate from these expectations. In this text, deviation from the normative expectations is quite rare with subjects preceding the verb in verb-second (‘abnormal’) sentences, whereas it is much more frequent with plural subjects following the verb and, particularly, plural antecedents functioning as the subject in relative clauses. In the latter case, an influence of the agreement rules of Latin appears likely. A separate section discusses a range of individual sentences which pose specific problems with regard to patterns of agreement, the identification of syntactic structures, or the amount of permitted variation.
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