mark:prt
: particle
The UD Irish subtype `mark:prt’ is used for the various particles in Irish, including:
- adverbial particle: go
- quantifier particle: a
- cleft particle: a
- verb particles: d’, a, and the complementisers go, nach, nár, gur, gurbh,
- comparative and superlative particles: is, níos
- days of the week particle: Dé
Examples
adverbial particle
Níor tháinig sé go fóill `He has not arrived yet’ ~~~ sdparse Níor tháinig sé go fóill \n NEG arrived he PART yet mark:prt(fóill, go) ~~~
quantifier particle
Ar a seacht a chlog `At seven o’ clock’
Roinn a 2 `Division 2’
cleft particle
Is leabhar a thug sí dom `It is a book that she gave me’
verb particles
Nuair a tógadh na scadáin ar bord `When the herring were brought onboard’
D’ inis tú dom `You told me’
complementiser
Is dóigh liom go raibh siad ann `I believe they were there’
superlative particle
Ba í an difríocht is suntasaí `It was the most remarkable difference’