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A great article by Mícheál Hoyne showing that #MiddleIrish was developing an absolutive-ergative alignment in its personal pronouns. This survived to an extent in Classical Gaelic, but (mostly) disappeared later.
The use of “object” pronouns with the copula in Modern #Irish are a remnant thereof too.
https://dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/1104/#syntax #OldIrish #linguistics #ergative #splitergativity #Gáoidhealg #Gaoidhealg #Sengoídelc