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Sure How Would the (Imminent) Future Ever Be after Becoming the (Recent) Past? Change in the Irish English "Be after V-ing" Construction.
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McCafferty, Kevin – 2002
This paper examines the written use of the "be after V-ing" construction since the reintroduction of English into Ireland. Information comes from publications beginning in 1670, including 193 works by 87 authors providing 1,316 tokens of the construction. Results support Filppula's (1999) view of historical change in the use of this…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability