Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts |
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... verbs has in any case a consuetudinal meaning ; in the Irish verb " to be " the ending - ( e ) ann is found only in the consue- tudinal present bidheann , not in the punctual present tá ; the auxiliary " to do " would therefore come to ...
... verbs has in any case a consuetudinal meaning ; in the Irish verb " to be " the ending - ( e ) ann is found only in the consue- tudinal present bidheann , not in the punctual present tá ; the auxiliary " to do " would therefore come to ...
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... verb , the synthetic and the analytic . With synthetic forms of the verb the pronouns are of course not needed , since the person and number are sufficiently indicated by the inflection . With synthetic forms of the verb a pronoun ...
... verb , the synthetic and the analytic . With synthetic forms of the verb the pronouns are of course not needed , since the person and number are sufficiently indicated by the inflection . With synthetic forms of the verb a pronoun ...
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... verb " to be " followed by the present participle of the verb in question : he has been writing . In Gaelic there is no true perfect , but a comparable " progressive " tense is formed with the present of the verb “ to be ” linked to the ...
... verb " to be " followed by the present participle of the verb in question : he has been writing . In Gaelic there is no true perfect , but a comparable " progressive " tense is formed with the present of the verb “ to be ” linked to the ...
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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