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ICCS 2015

Tha sgioba DASG toilichte a bhith an sàs anns an tachartas as cudromaiche ann an clàr-ama acadaimigeach na Ceiltis, 15mh Còmhdhail Eadar-Nàiseanta na Ceiltis, a tha a’ dol air adhart aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu tron t-seachdain seo.
Seo a’ chiad turas aig a’ Chòmhdhail ann an Glaschu bho thòisich i o chionn 56 bliadhna, agus tha i a’ toirt seachad fòram anns am bi eòlaichean bho làn raon na Ceiltis – a’ toirt leis cànanachas, litreachas, eachdraidh, àrc-eòlas, agus eachdraidh na h-ealaine- a’ tighinn cruinn còmhla gus toraidhean an cuid obrach a chur am follais.

A-màireach (Dihaoine), bidh an Dr. Mark McConville bho DASG, a’ toirt seachad òraid a tha ceangailte ris a’ phròiseact, “Representing Constructions in an Electronic Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic”:

One of the most important results of recent research into computational and cognitive linguistics is that the lexicon is not just a list of words. Rather, it is a multidimensional network containing many different kinds of lexical item – words, compounds, idioms, names, affixes, etc. One important class of lexical item which is difficult to handle in the traditional dictionary model is that of constructions. These are complex lexical structures containing one or more ‘gaps’, which are subsequently ‘filled’ with another lexical items during syntactic combination. Examples of lexical constructions include idioms, affixes, particles, prepositions, auxiliary and phrasal verbs. The hierarchy of constructions in the lexicon of any language is highly complex, with more general constructions often being instantiated by more specific ones. The Lexicopia / GD website is a prototype for a comprehensive electronic dictionary of Scottish Gaelic, designed on cognitive principles, and inspired by the results of the 2013 Dlùth is Inneach project. In this talk, I discuss the system I have developed to represent constructions in this dictionary, using a model of Gaelic phrase structure which is expressive enough to handle all the data, yet simple enough to be understood by linguistically-aware users.

Thug stiùiriche na pròiseict, an t-ollamh Rob Ó Maolalaigh, seachad òraid chudromach Dimàirt cuideachd, air “Conservative Features in Scottish Gaelic: The Conjunctions mura, mus, gar an:

Scottish Gaelic is well known for its conservative features, especially in terms of lexis and phonology. This paper discusses three conjunctions (mura ‘if not’, mus ‘before’, gar an ‘although not’) and their variants, whose history and significance have yet to be properly considered and assessed. By tracing the origins of mura and gar an (and possibly mus) to Old Gaelic, the conservative nature of Scottish Gaelic conjunction morphology is established.

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