Nancy Stenson is Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in Irish and Celtic linguistics and was co-editor of the Journal of Celtic Language Learning from 1995 to 2007.

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• Background1. Dialects of Irish2. Sounds and spellings3. Initial mutations4. TerminologyGrammar I: Sentence basics5. Basic word order6. Non-declarative sentences7. Being and having8. Focus and emphasis with cleft sentencesGrammar II: Building blocks - major constituents9. Verbs and verb phrases10. Irregular verbs11. Personal endings12. Impersonal forms13. Verbal nouns and adjectives14. The syntax of verbal nouns and verbal adjectives: Expressions of aspect15. Mood16. Nouns and noun phrases17. PronounsGrammar III: Building the Phrase - modifiers and adjuncts18. Adjectives19. Determiners 20. Numbers21. Adverbs22. PrepositionsGrammar IV: Complex Sentences23. Coordinate, complement, and adjunct clauses24. Relative clauses25. ConditionalsConcluding chapters: Extra-sentential material26. Names27. Greetings, formulaic expressions, and discourse markers

Nancy Stenson is Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in Irish and Celtic linguistics and was co-editor of the Journal of Celtic Language Learning from 1995 to 2007.

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• Background1. Dialects of Irish2. Sounds and spellings3. Initial mutations4. TerminologyGrammar I: Sentence basics5. Basic word order6. Non-declarative sentences7. Being and having8. Focus and emphasis with cleft sentencesGrammar II: Building blocks - major constituents9. Verbs and verb phrases10. Irregular verbs11. Personal endings12. Impersonal forms13. Verbal nouns and adjectives14. The syntax of verbal nouns and verbal adjectives: Expressions of aspect15. Mood16. Nouns and noun phrases17. PronounsGrammar III: Building the Phrase - modifiers and adjuncts18. Adjectives19. Determiners 20. Numbers21. Adverbs22. PrepositionsGrammar IV: Complex Sentences23. Coordinate, complement, and adjunct clauses24. Relative clauses25. ConditionalsConcluding chapters: Extra-sentential material26. Names27. Greetings, formulaic expressions, and discourse markers