djwebb2021 wrote:
Labhrás wrote:
djwebb2021 wrote:
Rosie_Oleary wrote:
Ah, interesting format, DJWebb!
And, speaking of An Lon Dubh’s point about splitting the predicate, do any of y’all recon the following would be correct: Is í an tsráid í is cúinge sa bhaile. (It is the narrowest street in town)?
is í seo an tsráid is cúinge sa bhaile í.
Is í seo an tsráid is cúinge sa bhaile. (gan an dara í)
You must be right. I have seen few sentences with the emphasised pronoun in copula sentences. But looking in Ua Laoghaire's corpus you are right.
It is equivalent to sentences like
Is ise ...:
Is ise an bhean.
Is í sin an bhean. "í sin" is one of the two constituents, the other constituent is "an bhean" (or: "an tsráid ..." in your example).
(Which of them to be considered
predicate and
subject - opinions differ)
No third constituent could occur and no sub-predicate or sub-subject is needed.
In sentences with "Is í ... í", the first í is a sub-predicate, the last í being subject.