Focus on Ireland [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeffrey Kallen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457906203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1997
• ISBN: 1-283-35836-0; 9786613358363; 90-272-7574-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Collana: Varieties of English around the world. General series, , 0172-7362 ; ; v. 21
• Altri autori (Persone): KallenJeffrey L
• Disciplina: 427/.9417
• Soggetti: English language - Ireland - History; English language - Variation - Ireland; English language - Dialects - Ireland; Electronic books.; Ireland Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: FOCUS ON IRELAND; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; REFERENCES; Abbreviations; Maps; REFERENCES; Irish English Context and Contacts; 1. The study of Irish English; 1.1. Irish English and language contact; 1.2. Further development in the study of Irish English; 2. The spread of Irish English; 2.1. The introduction of English in Ireland; 2.2. Bilingualism, diglossia, and the spread of English; 2.3. The status of Irish English; 3. Irish English and linguistic variation; REFERENCES; Bilingualism and Substrate InfluenceA Look at Clefts and Reflexives; 1. Introduction2. Cleft sentences; 3. Reflexives; 4. Summary; 5. Discussion; Acknowledgements; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Influence of Irish on Perfect Marking in Hiberno-English The Case of the ""Extended-now"" Perfect; 1. Introduction1; 2. Hiberno-English perfects; 3.Meanings and uses of the extended-now perfect in HE dialects; 4. The origins of the EP; 4.1. Superstratum vs. substratum accounts; 4.2. The case for the Irish substratum reconsidered; 5. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Emerging Irish Phonological ; Substratum in Irish English; 1. Language contact; 2. The distribution of the Irish dialects3. Emerging cross-linguistic links; 4. The palatalization/velarization contrast; 4.1. The labial consonants; 4.2. The velar consonants; 4.2.1 Velar stops preceding the diphthong /ai/; 5. The alveolar/dental consonants; 6. The sonorants; 6.1. R-types; 7. Length and the vocalic system; 7.1. Length distinctions; 7.2. The raising of mid vowels; 8. Conclusion; REFERENCES; The Syntax Of Belfast English; 1. Introduction; 2. Standard Belfast English; 2.1. Inversion in embedded questions; 2.2. Inverted imperatives; 2.3. Subject contact relatives; 3. Local forms which are not strongly stigmatized3.1. Singular concord; 3.2. The historic present; 3.3. For-to infinitives; 3.4. Topic structures; 4. Stigmatized structures; 4.1. Non-standard past tenses and past participles; 4.2. Demonstratives; 4.3. Negative concord; 5. Stability and change; NOTES; REFERENCES; Aspects of Prosody in Hiberno-EnglishThe Case of Belfast; 1. Defining prosody and overcoming notions of standardness; 2. The neglect of prosody and the need for an analytic framework; 3. Intonation and the Anglo-Irish bias: The consequences; 4. Background to Belfast and northern Hiberno-English intonation4.1. Rises as a relic of Irish English?; 5. Intonation in British English and Hiberno-English: Establishing units; 6. A model for analysing Belfast English intonation; 6.1. Intonational divisions in Belfast English; 6.2. Acoustic correlates of prominence in Belfast intonation: primacy of obtrusion; 6.3. Pitch movement; 6.4. The phonetic basis for identifying more than one prominence per tone sequence; 7. Tonal characteristics of prominences in Belfast intonation; 8. Non-prominent components of the tone sequence; 8.1. Leading segment types
• Sommario/riassunto: Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this variety in the Irish diaspora and its use in literature, provide the main impetus for research into Irish English. This volume brings together 12 original papers which use a variety of methods to examine these aspects of English in Ireland. Following a historical introduction which looks critically at re