Dialect Variation in Gaelic Relative Clauses
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In this paper we present some results stemming from a British Academy funded grant,1 the objective of which was to determine the extent of dialect variation in relative clause constructions in Scottish Gaelic and to provide a theoretical explanation for the structures discovered. The more theoretical outcomes of the project are reported in Adger and Ramchand (2002) and Adger and Ramchand (2005); here we concentrate on providing a theoretically informed description of the patterns we found in the hope that this will be of some use to the community of researchers on the Gaelic language.
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