The present perfect in Irish English

Kirk, John M.

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“…The segregation in usage has resulted in a contemporary phase in which two perfects coexist. Note that the have perfect in HE behaves differently from StE and exhibits a much lower frequency than StE, which Kirk (2017) reveals in a comparison between London-Lund Corpus and International Corpus of English (ICE)-Grate Britain Corpus on one hand and ICE-Ireland on the other hand. In HE, the simple past tense form is often the first choice in natural speech, although the have perfect can be elicited for most sentences with the simple past.…”

Section: Be After Perfect Vis-à-vis Have Perfect In He Todaymentioning

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Contact-induced grammar formation: A model from a study on Hiberno-English

Shimada

2022

Front. Commun.

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This article examines how certain characteristic grammatical forms in Hiberno-English (HE) are the result of a dynamic process of language formation guided by language contact. A first language contact between Irish and English gives rise to the grammar formation of HE, and a second contact between HE and other varieties of English, presumably over the past 50 years or so, has pruned HE to fit the speakers' awareness toward the standard norm. Examinations of the expressions of tense/aspect and information structure in HE lead to suggestion of grammatical oppositions being inherited from Irish and the resilience of this inheritance in present-day HE. Taking three salient characteristics of HE, the be after perfect, the do be habitual, and the 'tis….. construction as windows to its underlying properties, the article surveys earlier forms in the rise of HE and describes some facets of contemporary HE. One of the central issues in the examination is Irish language traits and their realization in HE morphosyntax. The article concludes by proposing an integrated perspective across the characteristics and a model to capture the grammar formation of HE, which can be applied to find similarities and contrasts with other language contact phenomena.

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Section: Be After Perfect Vis-à-vis Have Perfect In He Todaymentioning

confidence: 90%

Contact-induced grammar formation: A model from a study on Hiberno-English

Shimada

2022

Front. Commun.

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The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles

Hackert

2019

JPCL

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This study investigates the expression of perfect meanings in thirty English-lexifier pidgins and creoles or related varieties, such as African American Vernacular English or Singlish. The data were elicited with the help of sixteen sentences and a short text from Dahl’s (1985: 198–206) typological tense-aspect questionnaire. The perfective, as the perfect’s ‘anti-prototype’ (Dahl 2014: 273), is also considered. The possession of a grammaticalized perfect category is particularly frequent in West Africa, where it is likely to constitute a case of substrate influence; moreover, the gram is considerably less frequent in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles than in non-creole languages, which may be related to recent grammaticalization processes.

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Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents

Raoprasert,

Thumvichit

2024

Linguistics Vanguard

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Scholars have yet to establish a consensus regarding French equivalents of the English present perfect (PP). This study investigates the French equivalents of the PP through the lens of parallel corpora. Although the passé composé is commonly considered the French equivalent, no singular tense in French entirely mirrors the PP. This paper challenges this assumption by suggesting other French forms as viable correspondences, including the présent de l’indicatif, the passé récent, the futur antérieur, and the imparfait. Leveraging the benefits of parallel corpora for crosslinguistic analysis, these forms were scrutinized in relation to their function and application across different uses of the PP. The findings provide empirical evidence that enriches the understanding of the crosslinguistic complexity between the PP and its French equivalents, offering valuable insights for foreign language learning, teaching, and translation. The study also stresses the importance of interpretations of tense equivalences in the pursuit of successful crosslinguistic communication.

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The present perfect in Irish English

Cited by 3 publications

References 36 publications

Contact-induced grammar formation: A model from a study on Hiberno-English

Contact-induced grammar formation: A model from a study on Hiberno-English

The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles

Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents

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