本科毕业设计-the influence of the irish language on irish english grammar 英语专业.doc

Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of Englishand American Studies English Language and Literature Radoslava Pekarová The Influence of the Irish language on Irish English Grammar Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D. 2009  Table of Contents Introduction 5 1. Historical account: Establishment of English in Ireland 6 2. Anglo-Irish, Irish English or Hiberno-English? 14 3. Controversy about the Irish Influence 18 4. Grammar 21 4.1 Irish English Usages of the Definite Article 23 4.2 Special Use of Reflexive Pronouns 27 4.3 Structures to Denote Tense Aspects in Irish English 31 4.3.1 Perfective Aspect 31 The Indefinite Anterior Perfect 31 The ‘After Perfect’ 33 The ‘Medial-object’ Perfect 35 The Be Perfect 39 The Extended-now Perfect 41 4.3.2 Present Habitual Aspect 42 4.4 Irish English Use of Prepositons 47 4.4.1 The Preposition on 48 4.4.2 The Preposition in 50 4.4.3 The Preposition with 52 4.4.4 The Preposition of 53 Conclusion 55 References………………………………………………………………………………………………56 Introduction Irish English is said to be the oldest variety of English outside Britain (Hickey, 2007) and between varieties of English has a special position which is confirmed by Siedmund and Pietsch (2008: 87), “Irish English represents one of the most interesting and intriguing language contact situations in the English speaking world. It involves contact between two genetically related, but typologically fairly distant languages – Irish and English…” If we think about other varieties of English, such as American or Australian English, we have to realize that none of them was influenced by any of the native languages of the countries as in the case of Irish English. Nowadays Irish English represents two languages which have been coexisting next two each other for centuries. During this time English of the Irish adopted many features of the natives and this is the area of my interest. The thesis deals with some peculiaritie