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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Irish English Habitual Do Be Revisited
Beteiligte:
Ronan, Patricia
Erschienen:
Editura Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, 2010
Erschienen in:Linguaculture
Sprache:
Nicht zu entscheiden
DOI:
10.2478/v10318-012-0003-9
ISSN:
2067-9696
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article examines the category of present habitual in Irish English, Irish and Scots Gaelic. The latter two are frequently claimed to have had an influence on the development of the tense and aspect systems of their respective contact varieties of English. It is argued that Scots Gaelic, in contrast to Irish Gaelic, has no separately marked habitual present system, and therefore there may have been less pressure to introduce distinct habitual-present aspect into Scottish English, an assessment which is in line with research in contact linguistics.</jats:p>