Case Merger in Indo-European and the Independent Datives in Old Irish.
Summary
This thesis firstly looks into case merger in Indo-European, that is, how and why cases merge, and then applies this information to the Celtic languages and see how the dative, ablative, instrumental and locative merged. Secondly it researches the independent datives in Old Irish, to see how they are interpreted, and if they reflect an underlying dative, ablative, instrumental or locative.