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... present participle was formed ; in American English aborning is used in the same sense [ Burchfield ( 1972 ) s.v. ] . §188 . A number of texts use endingless past participles of weak verbs : rob ... present tá sé he is ' ; present - day 292.
... present participle was formed ; in American English aborning is used in the same sense [ Burchfield ( 1972 ) s.v. ] . §188 . A number of texts use endingless past participles of weak verbs : rob ... present tá sé he is ' ; present - day 292.
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... present he does be distinct from the punctual present he is . It is probable that the use of the verb " to do " as a consue- tudinal auxiliary results from an association between this verb , as used in English in negative ...
... present he does be distinct from the punctual present he is . It is probable that the use of the verb " to do " as a consue- tudinal auxiliary results from an association between this verb , as used in English in negative ...
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... present - day Hiberno - English by the literal translation he is after writing he has just ) written . ' Constructions in which after is followed by the present participle are fairly numerous in our texts , but only one of them is ...
... present - day Hiberno - English by the literal translation he is after writing he has just ) written . ' Constructions in which after is followed by the present participle are fairly numerous in our texts , but only one of them is ...
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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