SCONJ: subordinating conjunction
Description
A subordinating conjunction is a conjunction that links constructions by making one of them a constituent of the other.
In Irish, subordinate conjunctions normally precede a subordinate clause marker such as go, a.
There is also a special case of tagging agus “and” as a subordinate conjunction (normally CCONJ), where the subordinate clause is missing a surface verb `to be’, yet will have a subject in use with a progressive aspectual phrase, an adjective, a past participle or locative adverb.
Examples
- nuair “when”
- tháinig sí ar ais nuair a chuala sí an nuacht “she came back when she heard the news”
- cé “even though”
- cé go raibh cuid mhaith ann san am gcéanna “even though there was a lot there at the same time”
- sula/sular “before”
- sular féidir linn imeacht, ní mór dúinn léarscáil a cheannach “before we can leave, we need to buy a map”
- Seo pictúir a tógadh dhó agus é briste “here is a picture that was taken of it and it broken”
- más ‘If’
- Is féidir libh troid amárach, más gá ar chor ar bith é ‘‘You can fight tomorrow, if there is a need to.’’
Source: Studies in Irish Syntax, Nancy Stenson (1981), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag
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