Examines the medieval Irish scholars’ conceptualization and terminology of the ‘word’ as a grammatical unit, drawing upon evidence from the tracts Dliged sésa a huraicept na mac sésa and Auraicept na n-éces.
Examines the section of the Bk of Ballymote (fols. 157-181) concerned with grammar, metrics, and the educational curriculum of the fili. Appendix: Grammar and prosody in the Book of Ballymote: a revised catalogue.
Offers an account of the manuscript tradition of the two OIr. verbal paradigms therein (Calder 1917 ll. 650-655 and 3353-3357), as well as some comments on its possible sources.
Discusses the use and spread of the differentia as a definition formula in medieval Irish culture. I. Le concept de differentiae dans les glosses de Saint-Gall; II. Les différences dans les glossaires [A. Cormac; B. O’Davoren]; III. L’Auraicept na n-éces.
Examines the conceptual range of grammatic and grammatach (attested in glosses on Augustine and in Auraicept na n-éces respectively) in the thinking of the medieval Irish learned classes, and connects their concept of grammatica to the terminology used in the Latin colophon in TBC–LL.
Ahlqvist (Anders): The early Irish linguist: an edition of the canonical part of the Auraicept na n-éces.
CHL, 73. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1982. 81 pp.
Edition of the original nucleus of the Auraicept, based mainly on MS RIA 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote); with commentary, textual notes and English translation.
Rev. by
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 22 (1985), pp. 381-382.
Harry Roe, in Peritia 6-7 (1987-1988), pp. 337-339.