Cúmhaí wrote:
Labhrás wrote:
Seoladh oifigiúil ár gceiliúraidh bhliantúil deireadh seachtaine ar cheol traidisiúnta, theanga agus chultúr na hÉireann. Beidh sé ar siúil in áiteanna difriúla i mí Iúil.
I believe there is an incorrect double genitive here. Should it not be:
Seoladh oifigiúil ár gceiliúradh bliantúil dheireadh seachtaine ar cheol traidisiúnta, theanga agus chultúr na hÉireann.?
No, I don't think so.
There are different kinds of constructions with multiple genitives depending merely on definiteness.
In case it were "deireadh na seachtaine" everything would be clear: No genitive form of deireadh or ceiliúradh but lenition.
Easy rules because all units of meaning are
definite.
But here
deireadh seachtaine is indefinite. Neither "deireadh na seachtaine" nor "an deireadh seachtaine".
So different rules apply:
I'd simplified the construction
seoladh ár gceiliúrtha deireadh seachtaine = the launch of our weekend celebration[
Deireadh seachtaine] is in genitive relation to
ceiliúradh. But deireadh doesn't change into its genitive form deiridh
because both deireadh and seachtaine are
indefinite and seachtain is already in genitive form.
So the remaining question is:
What happens to
ár gceiliúradh which is again in a genitive relation to
seoladh?
Here again, something is different: Ár gceiliúradh is
definite, but its attribute is
indefinite.
That means, ár gceiliúradh must be in genitive form:
seoladh ár gceiliúrtha deireadh seachtaine = the launch of our weekend celebrationEDIT: -tha instead of -aidhBTW: Maybe deireadh should be lenited following a masculine noun in genitive but I don't know. It sounds strange.
