Can you does this?:

Rith sé amach an tí go tapaidh /he ran out out the house quickly

Rith sé amach go tapaidh é

Yeah the ''go'' you use ''go'' for words equivalent to the English words of 'ly' ending, your sentence seems fine to me.

"an tí" is not a subject.
The subject of the sentence is "sé" = he.
"Rith sé amach go tapaidh."
There's no need for "é".

Lars

recte:

amach as an teach
amach as

I was asking due to Modern Irish page 208 which is talking about 'right ward movement of subject, ex:

Léigh sé an leabhar go cúramach

Léigh sé í go cúramach

Léigh sé go cúramach í


(What is the human-level context of this movement? The book does not specify)

My example is what occurs when amach or insteach appear in the sentance

The confusion seems to be that neither amach nor isteach are the subject, in this case, so when you talk about rightward movement of subject in this context, it doesn't seem to make sense. Rightward movement of a prepositional phrase, yes! :)

Am I misunderstanding you?

(Message edited by Domhnall_Ó_h_Aireachtaigh on March 23, 2008)

The idea is to move the subject apparently, to turn a VSO structure to a VOS one for different purposes.

Ya my example was not the best, but it was the ambiguity that struck me in the first place.

quote:

I was asking due to Modern Irish page 208 which is talking about 'right ward movement of subject, ex:

Léigh sé an leabhar go cúramach

Léigh sé í go cúramach

Léigh sé go cúramach í

"An leabhar" is object , not subject.
And as Dennis said: You don't go "amach an tí" but "amach as an teach".
"Amach as an teach" isn't a subject nor a direct object, but a prepositional phrase.

in Modern Irish, p. 208 Ó S. is talking about simple personal pronouns as objects and about prepositional pronouns.
So it's: "Léigh sé go cúramach í."

In your example the question is: What's the position of the prepositional pronoun "as" (out of it)?

Rith sé amach as go tapaidh.
Rith sé amach go tapaidh as.
or:
Rith sé go tapaidh amach as.

I don't know. I think I'd prefer the first,
because I would rather not move "amach" to the right and I would not seperate amach from as.

Lars

(Message edited by lars on March 23, 2008)

I'm somewhat at a loss as to what your problem is, Bearn, but "Rith sé amach as go tapaidh" (Lars) seems to this learner also the only way to run..

I have no problem, I was just interested in how much flexibility one can get from that pattern. You see, Ó Siadhail is not always clear on why one is doing the movement -what is one emphasizing and for what purpose -I am interested in the human level of communication here -I have no problems with the exact mechanisms of the grammar