2673.
Fulk
(Robert D.): The historical present in medieval Irish narrative.
In
ZCP 42
(1987), pp. 330–343.
Argues that in Old Irish narrative prose the alternation between preterite and present tense is used to characterize the events as more and less important respectively from the author’s point of view.
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C 2.1 Historical linguistics, language change and comparative philology