Strachan's Paradigms appeared in 1905 (IIRC), when there was no up-tozdate grammar available, neither GOI nor Pedersen's VKG. It is basically a mini-grammar focussing on morphology. It is aimed at advanced students who are fluent in Latin and Greek, and who are familiar...https://twitter.com/AdmiralHip/status/1190649688254558209 …
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...with comparative philology. Quin's book from the 70s is only slightly better, it also expects familiarity with old languages. Furthermore, Quin is pretty bad and superficial towards the end. Neither book is appropriate for the requirements of contemporary students.
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I do have a background in Latin and OE, so I understood them to some degree in terms of cognates etc but they aren’t helpful for actual reading, in my experience. I’ve been looking for a better one so I’ll check out the ones above.
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One of my PhD students is working on developing concepts for an online beginners's OIr app. Let's see what comes out of it.
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That would be amazing! Good luck to them. You can tell them this early medievalist would get a lot out of something like that.
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