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aux:pass: passive auxiliary

In this treatment of the rach periphrastic passive in Scottish Gaelic, rach is treated as an auxiliary and the head of the passive construction is the infinitive. The passive subject is a dependent on the infinitive with the relation nsubj:pass.

Surface forms of rach include chaidh (past), thèid (future), deach (dependent), deachadh and rachadh (conditional).

Examples

chaidh e sin a mhilleadh cho luath ‘s a thàinig e

‘That one was destroyed as quickly as it came’


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