Hi everybody! One question: does anyone know something about the book Auraceipt na n-Éces? Im specially interested in it because in the book The search for the perfect language, Umberto Eco quotes the following idea: The author argues from a comparison of Gaelic grammar with the materials used in the constructions of the Tower of Babel: Others affirm that in the tower there were only nine materials and that these were clay and water, wool and blood, wood and lime, pitch, linen, and bitumen [...] These represent noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, participle, conjunction, preposition, interjection However, searching about the book I couldnt find it in any other language but Gaelic, and unfortunately I cant read Gaelic. Another point: in this same book, Eco quotes another treatise on languages which discuss the cases as human body parts. From what I can recall, it was something like: the head is the nominative case (because it is the head of the sentence), the heart is the accusative case (because it suffers the verbal action) and so on. Does anybody know any other metaphor like these for the study of grammatical nomenclature (metalinguistics, in fact)? Thanks in advance!
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:33:03 +0000
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