Miscellanea on classical Irish: 1 cadad at -s s- boundaries. 2 the conjunctionless comparative. 3 the appositional genitive

Abstract

Abstract:This set of miscellanea investigates a number of metrical and grammatical features of Classical Irish, in particular (1) the sandhi feature involving the collision of two s- sounds across word boundary, in both unstressed ~ stressed and stressed ~ stressed environments; (2) a brief analysis of the Classical Irish conjunctionless comparative construction corresponding to Old Irish maissiu máenib ‘more splendid than treasures’; and (3) an analysis of the reflexes in Classical Irish of the appositional genitive constructions of the Early-Irish type senóir cléirig ‘an old man who is a cleric’, that is ‘an old cleric’ and demon caillige ‘a demon of a hag’, that is ‘a terrifying hag’.