Demonstratives or An cat ud thall - Eachdraidh nam mùthaidhean

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-You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. The idea of fuzzy locations includes both far off and near by locations so <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> is a "fuzzy location distant from the speaker" and <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> is a "fuzzy location near the speaker". However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can not do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>.
+You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between precise and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. The idea of fuzzy locations includes both far off and near by locations so <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> is a "fuzzy location distant from the speaker" and <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> is a "fuzzy location near the speaker". However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can not do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>.
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-You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can't do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>. The idea of fuzzy locations includes both far off and near by locations so <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> is "fuzzy distant" and <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> is "fuzzy here".
+You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. The idea of fuzzy locations includes both far off and near by locations so <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> is a "fuzzy location distant from the speaker" and <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> is a "fuzzy location near the speaker". However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can not do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>.
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-You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can't do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>.
+You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can't do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>. The idea of fuzzy locations includes both far off and near by locations so <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> is "fuzzy distant" and <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> is "fuzzy here".
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-So where does <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> come into it you might ask? Good question. It comes into play when you build sentences which are seemingly missing a verb, such as <span style="color: #008000;">seo mo mhàthair</span>, which gets translated into English as 'this is my mother'.
+So, you might ask, where does <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> come into it? Good question. It comes into play when you build sentences which are seemingly missing a verb, such as <span style="color: #008000;">seo mo mhàthair</span> which gets translated into English as 'this is my mother'.
-As you all know, in Gaelic, that's the easiest way of building a declarative sentence about existence, without getting into hot water about choice of verbs etc. I suspect the <span style="color: #008000;">s-</span> in <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> [ʃid] is simply an analogy to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> (i.e. trying to make <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> fit in with <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>) - but it might just be the verb is itself. I'll try to find out, so watch this space. But, at any rate, that's how you use <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span>: in a declarative sentence about existence 'that's a pot', 'this is a cat', 'this is a boy' etc. Incidentally, this also works with definite nouns e.g. <span style="color: #008000;">seo an cat</span> 'this is the cat'.  Just in case you were wondering.
+As you all know, in Gaelic, that's the easiest way of building a declarative sentence about existence, without getting into hot water about choice of verbs etc. I suspect that the <span style="color: #008000;">s-</span> in <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> [ʃid] is simply an analogy to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> to try and make <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> fit in with <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>. However, it might just be the verb, <span style="color: #008000;">is</span>, itself. I'll try to find out, so watch this space. At any rate, that's how you use <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> in a declarative sentence about existence: 'that's a pot', 'this is a cat', 'this is a boy' etc. Incidentally, this also works with definite nouns, for example, <span style="color: #008000;">seo an cat</span> 'this is the cat'.  Just in case you were wondering.
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-Soo ... now we've done the more difficult adverbs, we can move on to the demonstratives. Again Gaelic has the three way split between close to speaker (proximal), close to addressee (medial) and long way from either (distal). Again, Doraemon is here to illustrate:
+Soo ... now we've done the more difficult adverbs, we can move on to the demonstratives. Again, Gaelic has the three way split to indicate that which is close to the speaker (proximal), close to the addressee (medial), and a long way from either (distal). Again, Doraemon is here to illustrate:
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-You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin] and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish to (which is why linguists call them enclitics - they can't go on their own and have to latch on to a noun). Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy location (cf <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. The one thing you can do however is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there" for example <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can't do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>.
+You simply add <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> [ʃɔ], <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> [ʃin], and <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> [əd] to whichever noun you wish. They can't appear on their own, so linguists call them enclitics because they must latch on to a host noun. Note that the distinction between immediate and fuzzy locations, (cf. <span style="color: #008000;">an-sin</span> vs. <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span>) largely does not enter this arena. However, the one thing you can do is to add <span style="color: #008000;">thall</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> to give the meaning of "that thing over there", for example, <span style="color: #008000;">a' phoit ud thall</span>. You can't do that with <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>, neither can you add <span style="color: #008000;">a-bhos</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span>.
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-So where does <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> come into it you might ask? Good question. It comes into play when you build sentences which are seemingly missing a verb, such as <span style="color: #008000;">seo mo mhàthair</span>, which gets translated into English 'this is my mother'.
+So where does <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> come into it you might ask? Good question. It comes into play when you build sentences which are seemingly missing a verb, such as <span style="color: #008000;">seo mo mhàthair</span>, which gets translated into English as 'this is my mother'.
-It's, as you will all know, the easiest way of building a declarative sentence about existence in Gaelic without getting into hot water about choice of verbs etc. I suspect the <span style="color: #008000;">s-</span> in <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> [ʃid] is simply an analogy to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> (i.e. trying to make <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> fit in with <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>) - but it might just be the verb is itself ... I'll try to find out so watch this space, but at any rate, that is how you use <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span>: in a declarative sentence about existence 'that's a pot', 'this is a cat', 'this is a boy' etc. This, incidentally, also works with definite nouns e.g. <span style="color: #008000;">seo an cat</span> 'this is the cat'.  Just in case you were wondering.
+As you all know, in Gaelic, that's the easiest way of building a declarative sentence about existence, without getting into hot water about choice of verbs etc. I suspect the <span style="color: #008000;">s-</span> in <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span> [ʃid] is simply an analogy to <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span> (i.e. trying to make <span style="color: #008000;">ud</span> fit in with <span style="color: #008000;">seo</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sin</span>) - but it might just be the verb is itself. I'll try to find out, so watch this space. But, at any rate, that's how you use <span style="color: #008000;">siud</span>: in a declarative sentence about existence 'that's a pot', 'this is a cat', 'this is a boy' etc. Incidentally, this also works with definite nouns e.g. <span style="color: #008000;">seo an cat</span> 'this is the cat'.  Just in case you were wondering.
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