Bibliography
Carlos
García Castillero
Contributions to journals
García Castillero, Carlos, “The type tánicc in the Old Irish glosses: affix ordering, frequency and phonotactics”, Transactions of the Philological Society 113 (March, 2015): 76–104.
abstract:
In this paper I investigate OIr. lexical compound verbs with the basic deuterotonic (deut.) shape CV·VC-, of the type of expected *do·ánicc ‘he, she came’ or ‘who came’ which actually occurs in the prototonic (prot.) form tánicc. On the basis of the notions of affix ordering, frequency and junctural phonotactics developed in recent works on experimental psycholinguistics, the OIr. forms of the type tánicc are explained as relatively late innovations in which the deut. are replaced by prot. forms. The extension of the prot. form in those lexical compound verbs at the expense of the deut. form is due to the phonotactically problematic hiatus of the latter and depends mainly on grammatical (in leniting relative clause forms) and lexical (in the most frequent verbs) criteria.
abstract:
In this paper I investigate OIr. lexical compound verbs with the basic deuterotonic (deut.) shape CV·VC-, of the type of expected *do·ánicc ‘he, she came’ or ‘who came’ which actually occurs in the prototonic (prot.) form tánicc. On the basis of the notions of affix ordering, frequency and junctural phonotactics developed in recent works on experimental psycholinguistics, the OIr. forms of the type tánicc are explained as relatively late innovations in which the deut. are replaced by prot. forms. The extension of the prot. form in those lexical compound verbs at the expense of the deut. form is due to the phonotactically problematic hiatus of the latter and depends mainly on grammatical (in leniting relative clause forms) and lexical (in the most frequent verbs) criteria.
García Castillero, Carlos, “Old Irish tonic pronouns as extraclausal constituents”, Ériu 63 (2013): 1–39.
abstract:
This paper offers a detailed analysis of the syntactic use of Old Irish (= OIr) tonic personal pronouns and claims that they are employed primarily for expressing extraclausal NP functions (especially Focus, Topic and Reported Speaker constituents introduced mainly by the particle ol). In addition, OIr clitic pronouns express intraclausal functions (Subject, Object, Oblique), for which a tonic pronoun may be employed only in very specific syntactic circumstances. The syntactic analysis of OIr tonic pronouns constitutes the main part of this work, but some diachronic observations aimed at explaining specific features of the syntactic behaviour of OIr personal pronouns are also presented (among others, the systematic avoidance of tonic personal pronouns in the comparative construction with ol, and the use of tonic pronouns for the Reported Speaker).
abstract:
This paper offers a detailed analysis of the syntactic use of Old Irish (= OIr) tonic personal pronouns and claims that they are employed primarily for expressing extraclausal NP functions (especially Focus, Topic and Reported Speaker constituents introduced mainly by the particle ol). In addition, OIr clitic pronouns express intraclausal functions (Subject, Object, Oblique), for which a tonic pronoun may be employed only in very specific syntactic circumstances. The syntactic analysis of OIr tonic pronouns constitutes the main part of this work, but some diachronic observations aimed at explaining specific features of the syntactic behaviour of OIr personal pronouns are also presented (among others, the systematic avoidance of tonic personal pronouns in the comparative construction with ol, and the use of tonic pronouns for the Reported Speaker).
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
García Castillero, Carlos, “Paradigmatic split and merger: the descriptive and diachronic problem of Old Irish Class B infixed pronouns”, in: Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu, and David Stifter (eds), Morphosyntactic variation in medieval Celtic languages: corpus-based approaches, 346, Berlin, Online: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. 143–178.
