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... construction are characterized by other peculiarities . There are three instances in which the verb " to be " is followed , not by an infinitive , but by a finite form of the verb : Fo ish tat ishe coughes ' who is that who is coughing ...
... construction are characterized by other peculiarities . There are three instances in which the verb " to be " is followed , not by an infinitive , but by a finite form of the verb : Fo ish tat ishe coughes ' who is that who is coughing ...
Page 299
... construction occurs in less than a third of our texts , and it is interesting to examine which these are . If we leave aside the anomalous variants discussed in §196 , the construction is found in eight texts . It is particularly common ...
... construction occurs in less than a third of our texts , and it is interesting to examine which these are . If we leave aside the anomalous variants discussed in §196 , the construction is found in eight texts . It is particularly common ...
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... construction , and no doubt there has been mutual influence between the two . In §206 the phrase make speech pon was listed as an instance of the put fear construction , and in §207 the phrases making speech wit , maake de spaake to and ...
... construction , and no doubt there has been mutual influence between the two . In §206 the phrase make speech pon was listed as an instance of the put fear construction , and in §207 the phrases making speech wit , maake de spaake to and ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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Aphorismical Discovery aund back vowel bilingual speakers Bog-Witticisms Brogue Captain consonant dear Joy Dermot Derry dialect diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin Dundalk England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels haue Hiberno Hiberno-English Honest Whore idiom instances Ireland Irish Hudibras Irish language Irish Masque Irish neutral Irish words King loanwords long vowel maake Manx Gaelic meaning Munster Irish Nees non-standard spellings noun oaths occurs origin palatal palatal consonant Patrick phonemes phrase play postponed stress printed probably pronoun pronunciation Purgatorium Hibernicum rapparees reference reflect represent rhyme scene Scottish Scottish Gaelic secondary language seems seventeenth century sh-spellings shelf Shoul Sir John Oldcastle speech Stage Irish Standard English Stukeley Teague tell texts Thomas Thomas Stukeley thou Ubique XII Ulster unvoicing usage verb viii Welsh Embassador write construction xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii