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The pragmatics of Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
The use of English in Ireland shows specific features which contribute to its unique profile.
The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)
This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ...
We can check it in the corpus shur: Framing the use of corpus and corpus methodologies through an investigation of the pragmatic marker shur in Irish English
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)