What’s Left to Say About Irish English Progressives? “I’m Not Going Having Any Conversation with You”. Ní Mhurchú, A. Corpus Pragmatics, 2(3):289–311, September, 2018. ![What’s Left to Say About Irish English Progressives? “I’m Not Going Having Any Conversation with You” [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper examines progressive forms in an Irish English context. Through corpus based analysis, it identifies a number of non-standard progressive structures which are then isolated for more qualitative discourse analysis, drawing upon past studies of aspect in Irish English, and applying a pragmatic framework, where appropriate, to discuss issues surrounding these structures. The primary data are accessed from the Limerick Corpus of Irish English, a 1-million-word corpus of spoken Irish English, and then cross-referenced using three other corpora including from British and American English, in order to allow for cross-varietal comparisons. The study finds that the progressive acts as a softener in imperative structures or structures with a similar illocutionary force and as an intensifier in the habitual do be V-ing. Of particular note is be going + V-ing, a much-neglected structure in studies of Irish English to date, but which this study found to have a unique syntax and pragmatic function.
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abstract = {This paper examines progressive forms in an Irish English context. Through corpus based analysis, it identifies a number of non-standard progressive structures which are then isolated for more qualitative discourse analysis, drawing upon past studies of aspect in Irish English, and applying a pragmatic framework, where appropriate, to discuss issues surrounding these structures. The primary data are accessed from the Limerick Corpus of Irish English, a 1-million-word corpus of spoken Irish English, and then cross-referenced using three other corpora including from British and American English, in order to allow for cross-varietal comparisons. The study finds that the progressive acts as a softener in imperative structures or structures with a similar illocutionary force and as an intensifier in the habitual do be V-ing. Of particular note is be going + V-ing, a much-neglected structure in studies of Irish English to date, but which this study found to have a unique syntax and pragmatic function.},
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journal = {Corpus Pragmatics},
author = {Ní Mhurchú, Aoife},
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