Commentary:
A course for students interested in the linguistic situation of present day Ireland focussing on the first national language of the Republic of Ireland.
The aim will be to create the knowledge and the confidence to master basic conversational topics. Subjects covered will be basic expression and vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and the spelling system. Familiarity with linguistic terminology (from an Introduction to Linguistics) will be helpful, but is facultative.
Further topics addressed will be the present situation of the Irish language, the position of Irish within the languages of Europe and the Indo-European language family, linguistic contact with English and other languages, and the analysis of grammatical features from a typologic point of view.
Participants should have attended "Irish (Gaelic) I".
Course materials will be uploaded on wordwise.
This course is funded by the Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge programme of the Government of the Republic of Ireland.
Textbook:
Ó Siadhail, Mícheál. 2006: Learning Irish. An introductory self-tutor. Dublin,
or
Ó Siadhail, Mícheál. 2004: Lehrbuch der irischen Sprache. Hamburg.
(other editions may be used)
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