A Brief Characterisation of Morphological Causation in Irish

Brian Nolan

doi:10.21427/d7hp7d

A Brief Characterisation of Morphological Causation in Irish

Brian Nolan

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Abstract

In this paper we attempt to characterise some elements of morphological causation as expressed in modern Irish. Three types of causation may be identified: lexical, periphrastic and morphological. In terms of the relative weightings of each type, the morphological causative is the least productive. Its use appears to be highly constrained to two very specific domains and it is signalled by particular morphological affixes. Lexical causatives are more productive than the morphological causative. By contrast, periphrastic or analytical causatives are highly productive and wide-ranging in their deployment. We concentrate in this analysis on some data on morphological causation.

Original language	English
Journal	ITB Journal
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/d7hp7d
Publication status	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

morphological causation
modern Irish

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