Discuss the trees and explain the differences between English and Scottish Gaelic sentence structure.

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Discuss the trees and explain the differences between English and Scottish Gaelic sentence structure.

Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language. In this assignment you should use the data given to provide as complete a description as possible of the various aspects of the language. The description should be written up in a text/discursive mode, using the appropriate linguistic terminology. I have simplified various aspects of the data and used one particular dialect, so you should NOT go find a grammar of the language to help you, as the generalizations that the grammar makes may not be correct for the data given here. Your total discussion should not exceed 1,000 words.

1. Word Classes

Use the following data to categorise the words given into Verb, Noun, Determiner and Preposition, backing up your claims with distributional and morphological evidence, where you can; state the basic word order and any surprising restrictions on the ways that the word classes inflect.

2. Agreement

1. a.      Say what grammatical categories pronouns inflect for in this language and state any differences from English.
2. b.      State as clearly as you can the generalization that governs prepositional agreement.

3. Trees

(a)   Draw trees for sentences 2, 4, 7, and 12 below:

(12) Thuirt Iain gun      do    bhuail Mairi an t-each

Say:past John that past   hit:past Mary the horse

‘John said that Mary hit the horse’

(b) Discuss the trees and explain the differences between English and Scottish Gaelic sentence structure.