The Old Irish verbal complex as a templatic morphological structure

This paper puts forward the idea that the notion of ‘templatic’ structure discussed in the linguistic literature applies to quite a number of remarkable features of the Old Irish verbal complex, a morphological structure which constitutively includes the expression of negative polarity, clause types and pronominal object argument, in addition to other grammatical categories typical of Indo-European languages such as tense, aspect, mood, diathesis, and subject pronominal reference.