One Response to “Datapoint for feature 120A and language wals_code_iri”

1. Stefan Schumacher Says:
   January 10th, 2012 at 5:05 pm

   The statement that copula deletion is impossible in Irish is wrong. Ó Siadhail 1989, which is referred to without page reference, actually has a section “Deletion of copula” (pp.244–5), at the outset of which the following statement is made:
   “A very general rule which seems to apply to all dialects is that the copula form _is_ may be deleted at the beginning of an utterance. This can be stated negatively by saying that the copula may not normally be deleted when marked for mood, tense, negation, interrogation or when embedded in a sentence”
   In fact, this statement of Ó Siadhail’s strikes me as very appropriate, and it is my own observation that this is accurate.
   Therefore I suggest changing the value of the datapoint for Irish to “possible”.

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