Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 524 p.
English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces the development of English in Ireland, both north and south, from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on authentic data ranging from medieval literature to authentic...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 193 p.
This volume provides an accessible overview of the English spoken in the Northern dialect regions of Ireland. The text begins with a basic overview of the location of the historical nine-county province of Ulster and the degree of contact its divergent peoples have had with the Republic of Ireland, as well as other areas of the British...
London/New York: Routledge, 2002 - 352 pp. ISBN: 0203029380, 9780203029381 Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku Filppula here challenges this misconception and offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Hiberno-English. Drawing on a...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 736 p. — ISBN 0198856156. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — 417 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs [TiLSM] 164). — ISBN10: 3110184699, 13 978-3110184693. Irish English, while having been the focus of investigations on a variety of linguistic levels, reveals a dearth of research on the pragmatic level. In the present volume, this imbalance is addressed by providing much-needed empirical data on...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — 380 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G44). — ISBN: 9027249040. This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the...
Deegan Communications, 2021. — 168 p. If an Irish person said to you, “Gimmie that yoke,” would you think they were talking about an egg? If so, 99% of the time, you’d be wrong. How about banjaxed, bockety or craic? Any idea what they mean? The Little Book of Irishisms is for anyone who wants to understand the Irish, not just how we speak English, but how we are as people,...
Ed. Raymond Hickey. — Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 61 p. Our guest issue for 2011 focuses on Irish English, which enjoys a special position within the constellation of varieties of English world-wide. Present and future horizons for Irish English Victories fastened in grammar: historical documentation of Irish English ‘Irish isn’t spoken here?’ Language policy and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 328 p. — (Dialects of English 9). This volume continues the Dialects of English series, and complements Irish English volume 1: Northern Ireland, by Karen Corrigan. Focusing on Irish English in the Republic of Ireland, the book starts by exploring the often oppositional roles of national language development and globalisation in shaping Irish English...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. — 279 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G21). Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 208 p. — (Dialects of English). This book focuses on the sociolinguistic consequences of historical contact between indigenous Irish peoples and newer English and Scottish settlers in what is now the territory of Northern Ireland (NI). The contact varieties that resulted represent the oldest L2 'Englishes' globally. Moreover, the degree of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. — 280 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G35). The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 216 p. Traces the phonological origins of one of the oldest colonial varieties of English Draws on data from the phonology and phonological history of Ulster English, and regional varieties of English and Scots Examines consonantal features, including velar palatalisation, pre-R dentalisation, epenthesis, consonant cluster simplification,...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 736 p. — ISBN 0198856156. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as...
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