This monograph offers a systematic description of the expression of clause typing in the Old Irish (7th-9th AD) verbal complex and discusses some of its diachronic aspects. The available evidence is rich enough as to make relevant statements about the morphosyntactic and pragmatic aspects of this specific topic, which had not been considered systematically in previous descriptive or diachronic studies on the Old Irish verbal morphosyntax.

• Foreword
• Contents
• Aims and structure of the study
• List of tables
• List of abbreviations
• Part I: Preliminary chapters
• 1 Old Irish and the notion of clause typing
• 2 The Old Irish verbal complex: Morphological structure and components
• 3 The syntax of the Old Irish verbal complex: Unmarked and marked word orders
• Part II: The Old Irish clause types
• 4 Declarative and relative clause types
• 5 Subordination in Old Irish
• 6 Wh‑interrogative clause type
• 7 Polar interrogative, responsive, and imperative clause types
• Part III: The Old Irish paradigm of clause types
• 8 The Old Irish paradigm of clause types
• 9 Clause types in the present indicative of the Old Irish substantive verb and copula
• 10 Personal pronouns and clause typing in Old Irish
• 11 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index