Abstract
One topic in typological linguistics that has generated a small but fairly steady stream of discussion is the concept of a Northern European linguistic area (see, e.g., Wagner 1962; Broderick and Ureland, eds 1991:19, and the accompanying literature cited). Such studies have mainly concentrated on phonetic and phonological parallels. The purpose of this article is to note some apparent syntactic parallels from the same area, and to discuss briefly some of the possible implications. In previous articles (Orr 1989, 1991, 1992), I have drawn attention to several syntactic parallels between Slavic and Celtic, especially Russian (R) on the one hand and Goidelic (Irish and Scottish Gaelic (SG)) on the other, based partly on Isaeenko's division of European languages into have-languages (H-languages mostly Romance, Germanic, West Slavic, and parts of East Slavic, South Slavic and Baltic) and be-languages (B-languages mostly Russian, Latvian, and Uralic) (see below, and Isaeenko 1974, Orr 1989 and 1992 for discussion). In this article I wish to continue this analysis from a slightly different angle, using in this article mainly examples from SG, although many of the parallels cited could apply equally to Irish.
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