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E 5.2: Derivational morphology

7667.
Ahlqvist (Anders): The ordering of nominal compounds in Irish.
In Historical semantics, historical word formation (1985), pp. 1–9.
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4772.
Remmer (Ulla): Das indogermanische Suffix -mon- im Altirischen (2. Teil).
In Sprache 44/1 (2004), pp. 26–69.
Hapax legomena bzw. nicht gesicherte Formen (cainim, clithem, etham, foídem, laissem, meisem/mesam, roem, sílem, sruithem, toirnem); Tierbezeichnungen (*betham, braichem, glaídem, legam, léom, sirem, toinnem, trichem/trechem); Bezeichnungen für Werkzeuge bzw. Gebrauchgegenstände (airnem, airtem, ceram, drolam, es(s)em, fíam, galam, genam/genum, ¹rúam, ²rúam, súainem); Personennamen (Aithem, *Segam, *Regam, Maram, Solam); Ähnliche Bildungen (mithem, ollam); Zusammenfassung.
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17560.
Doyle (Aidan): Suffixal rivalry: a case study in Irish nominalisations.
In Yearbook of morphology (1992), pp. 35–55.
Examines the phonology, morphology and syntax of the category of de-adjectival abstract nouns in Irish.
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2993.
Binchy (Daniel A.): Varia Hibernica: 2. Substantival dvandva-compounds in Irish.
In Fs. Sommerfelt (1972), pp. 38–41.
Identifies further examples, mostly from the law-texts.
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3041.
Hamp (Eric P.): Varia: 25. Notes on word formation: 2. Irish brecc, Welsh brych.
In ÉtC 23 (1986), pp. 47–51.
Derives OIr. mrecht (later brecht) from a PIE participial *-ko- formation, against H. Lewis and H. Pedersen, CCCG, p. 53.
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9582.
de Bernardo Stempel (Patrizia): Zur Methode der Wortbildungsanalyse von Korpussprachen (anhand keltischen Materials).
In Studia celtica et indogermanica [Fs. Meid] (1999), pp. 61–77.
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2215.
Irslinger (Britta): Abstract formations with *-tu and *-ti in Old Irish and Indo-European.
In Indo-European word formation (2004), pp. 65–90.
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3794.
Hamp (Eric P.): Does morphological reconstruction really exist?
In Celtica 25 (2007), pp. 65–87.
Exposes the set of rules that govern Proto-Indo-European derivational patterns involving the prefix *h1su and the adjectival *-i, which is illustrated especially by examples of the several compounding types occurring with OIr. so-. In addition argues that the Old Irish negative prefix neb-/neph- derives from the petrified result of the prefix concatenation *ne-su- before a vowel.
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12607.
Le Mair (Esther): Why a single burst or multiple scatterings can make all the difference: the patterns underlying the formation of AI and AII verbs.
In SCF 10 (2013), pp. 65–80.
Investigates the underlying motivation for ā- and ı̄-verbs to be formed as a verb of either class.
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7674.
Doyle (Aidan): Compounds and syntactic phrases in Modern Irish.
In SAP 30 (1996), pp. 83–95.
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4700.
de Bhaldraithe (Tomás): Notes on the diminutive suffix ín in Modern Irish.
In Celtic language, Celtic culture [Fs. Hamp 1] (1990), pp. 85–95.
Incl. word index.
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17201.
Pődör (Dóra): Productivity in verbal noun formation in Irish: some problems concerning the investigation of the spread of the -áil suffix.
In SKASE-JTL 12/1 (2015), pp. 103–108.
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3655.
Russell (Paul): ‘Verdunkelte Komposita’ in Celtic.
In StC 30 (1996), pp. 113–125.
Studies the status of the Old Irish compositional elements -rad/-red, -mor, -lach/-lech, -amail, -ur, -aig-, -gal, -bach, -fad(ach).
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14178.
Joseph (Lionel S.): The origin of the Celtic denominatives in *-sag-.
In Cowgill studies (1987), pp. 113–159.
Part I: Old Irish [on the -(a)igithir type].
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3144.
Lambert (Pierre-Yves): Préverbes gaulois suffixes en -io-: ambio, ario-, cantio-.
In ÉtC 31 (1995), pp. 115–121.
Examines the Continental Celtic background of nouns derived from prepositions (in particular ar, imm, cét-); also discusses Old Irish compound verbs with petrified neuter infix pronoung (ara-chrin, imme-airic, ceta-bí).
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15995.
Zhivlova (Nina): Rare and unique names of ‘non-Indo-European’ type and the case of Dallán Forgaill.
In Studia Celto-Slavica 7 (2015), pp. 149–162.
Discusses the name elements becc/bécc, cáech, dóel, túaim; includes an excursus on Dallán Forgaill.
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1991.
McCone (Kim): Old Irish con-dieig ‘asks, seeks’, verbal noun cuin(d)gid: a problem of syncope and verbal composition.
In Éigse 28 (1995), pp. 156–159.
Argues that the verbal noun and the prototonic forms of con-dieig are historically irregular; shown to be a post-syncope compound of unattested *de-saig with com, on which the normal syncope pattern was applied. Also on Middle Irish simplification of old compound verbs.
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3293.
Hamp (Eric P.): Varia: I. 2. Notes on some Indo-European preverbs.
In Ériu 24 (1973), pp. 163–167.
*e(p)i- in é(i)thech (with same base as díthech and fre(i)tech); *eti- in e(i)tech; óL < *au and *apo > *ao; OIr. ind-, imbL, íar(m-), ol, sech, coh, doL, ro (idiosyncratic) related to L pro-sum.
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1856.
Nic Mhaoláin (Máire): Dhá chomhfhocal liteartha sa Nua-Ghaeilge.
In Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 167–169.
[1.] déideadh; [2.] búirthé.
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4770.
Remmer (Ulla): Das indogermanische Suffix -mon- im Altirischen (1. Teil).
In Sprache 43/2 (2002–2003), pp. 171–211.
Collects and analyses instances of agent nouns in -em: Prototypen bzw. frühere Bildungen (ainim(m)/anaim(m), talam); Bekannte und gesicherte -amon und -(i)i̯amon-Bildungen (airem, betham, brithem, cairem, dáilem, dúilem, féchem, fethem, flaithem, glaídem, legam, luam, medam, mraithem, orb(b)am, súainem).

Continued in Die Sprache 44 (2004), 26-69.

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3299.
Hamp (Eric P.): Varia: I. 8. Some compounds of téit.
In Ériu 24 (1973), pp. 175–177.
1. for·tét ‘helps’; 2. im(b)·tét ‘goes about, sets forth’; 3. frith·to-tég, fristait ·frittáit ‘opposes’; 4. in·od-tég- 3 pl. intotgat ‘enter’; 5. The inherited inventory; 6. imb·said- v. n. impuide ‘besiege’; 7. sechmo·ella ‘passes by, lacks’.
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22201.
Hickey (Raymond): Segmental phonology and word-formation: agency and abstraction in the history of Irish.
In Historical semantics, historical word formation (1985), pp. 199–219.
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2630.
Hamp (Eric P.): Productive to·.
In ZCP 39 (1982), p. 219.
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4670.
Uhlich (Jürgen): Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in early Irish and other Celtic languages.
In TPhS 100/3 (Dec., 2002), pp. 403–433.
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14317.
Stifter (David): From Old Irish to Modern Irish.
In Word-formation [= HSK 40] (2015), pp. 2000–2021.
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2081.
Irslinger (Britta Sofie): Abstrakta mit Dentalsuffixen im Altirischen.
Idg. Bibl. 3. Heidelberg: Winter, 2002. xii + 515 pp. (Indogermanische Bibliothek, 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen).
Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in Kratylos 50 (2005), pp. 164-168.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 54 (2004), pp. 228-231.
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2036.
Russell (Paul): Celtic word formation: the velar suffixes.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1990. xii + 242 pp.
pp. 108-116: Irish -óc/-uc; pp. 131-135: Irish -ach and d(a)e.

App. V contains a collection of derivatives formed with the suffixes -ach/-ech and óc/-óg.

Rev. by
Aidan Doyle, textit{in} Lingua 87/4 (Aug. 1992), pp. 345-347.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 30 (1994), pp. 317-321.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 45 (1992), pp. 307-310.
Arwyn Watkins, in StC 26-27 (1991-1992), pp. 272-274.
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14149.
Doyle (Aidan): Noun derivation in Modern Irish: selected categories, rules and suffixes.
Lublin: Wydawnictwo Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1992. 138 pp.
Focuses on abstract nouns denoting quality or state (chap. 2.), agentive nouns (chap. 3), and diminutives (chap. 4).

Rev. by
Diarmuid Ó Sé, in Éigse 31 (1999), pp. 185-189.
Erich Poppe, in ZCP 48 (1996), pp. 333-334.
Paul Russell, in JCeltL 3 (1994), pp. 175-177.
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1838.
Uhlich (Jürgen): Die Morphologie der komponierten Personennamen des Altirischen.
BzS, 1. Witterschlick/Bonn: Wehle, 1993. xxxv + 309 pp.
Rev. by
D. Ellis Evans, in StC 31 (1997), pp. 317-318.
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1980.
Stüber (Karin): The historical morphology of n-stems in Celtic.
MSCL, 3. Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, Saint Patrick’s College, 1998. 237 pp.
Rev. by
Joseph F. Eska, in Kratylos 46 (2001), pp. 181-185.
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2062.
Wodtko (Dagmar S.): Sekundäradjektive in den altirischen glossen: Untersuchungen zur präfixalen und suffixalen Wortbildung.
IBS, 81. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1995. viii + 357 pp. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Hauptreihe, 81).
Rev. by
Kim McCone, in Kratylos 43 (1998), pp. 141-145.
J. W. H. Penney, in JCeltL 6 (1997), pp. 168-170.
Paul Russell, in CMCS 31 (Summer, 1996), pp. 87-89.
Stefan Zimmer, in ZCP 51 (1999), pp. 294-297.
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