The grammar of Irish English : language in Hibernian style / Markku Filppula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Filppula, Markku.

Series:

Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; 5.

Routledge/ESA studies in Germanic linguistics ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Ireland--Grammar.

English language.

English language--Foreign elements--Irish.

Irish language--Influence on English.

Irish language.

English language--Dialects--Ireland.

English language--Ireland--Style.

Languages in contact--Ireland.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku Filppula here challenges this misconception and offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Hiberno-English. Drawing on a wide range of authentic materials documenting Hiberno-English dialects past and present Filppula examines: * the most distinctive grammatical features of these dialects * relationships with earlier and other regional varieties of English * the continuing influence of the Irish lan

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Map of Ireland; Introduction; The English language in Ireland; The rise of modern Hiberno-English dialects and the decline of Irish; Major issues in the study of Hiberno-English; Types of explanation offered in previous research; Dating of the formative period of Hiberno-English dialects; Uniformity versus heterogeneity of Hiberno-English dialects; Terminological issues; Databases and methods; Data from Hiberno-English; Data from earlier and other varieties of English; Methods; The Noun Phrase

Hiberno-English usages of the definite article'Unbound' uses of reflexive pronouns; The verb phrase; Hiberno-English perfects; Periphrastic do in Hiberno-English dialects; Plural subject verb concord; Questions, responses, and negation; Word order in indirect questions; Failure of negative attraction; The complex sentence; Resumptive pronouns and adverbs in relative and other clauses; Subordinating uses of and; Only and but as conjunctions/conjunctives; Prepositional usage; The preposition on; The preposition in; The preposition with; The preposition of; Focusing devices; Clefting

TopicalisationDiscussion and conclusions; Substratum, superstratum, and universals in the genesis of Hiberno-English; Adstratal developments?; Hiberno-English and other contact vernaculars; Concluding remarks; A description of the Hiberno-English informants; Specimen texts; Details of the manuscript sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-321) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-75995-9

1-134-75996-7

1-280-33263-8

0-203-02938-0

0-203-17051-2

9780203029381

OCLC:

49414923