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1、MasarykUniversityFacultyofArtsDepartmentofEnglishandAmericanStudiesEnglishLanguageandLiteratureRadoslavaPekarováTheInfluenceoftheIrishlanguageonIrishEnglishGrammarBachelor’sDiplomaThesisSupervisor:Mgr.JanChovanec,Ph.D.200951TableofContentsIntroduction51.Historicalaccount:

2、EstablishmentofEnglishinIreland62.Anglo-Irish,IrishEnglishorHiberno-English?143.ControversyabouttheIrishInfluence184.Grammar214.1IrishEnglishUsagesoftheDefiniteArticle234.2SpecialUseofReflexivePronouns274.3StructurestoDenoteTenseAspectsinIrishEnglish314.3.1PerfectiveAspec

3、t314.3.1.1TheIndefiniteAnteriorPerfect314.3.1.2The‘AfterPerfect’334.3.1.3The‘Medial-object’Perfect354.3.1.4TheBePerfect394.3.1.5TheExtended-nowPerfect414.3.2PresentHabitualAspect424.4IrishEnglishUseofPrepositons474.4.1ThePrepositionon484.4.2ThePrepositionin504.4.3ThePrepo

4、sitionwith524.4.4ThePrepositionof53Conclusion55References………………………………………………………………………………………………5651IntroductionIrishEnglishissaidtobetheoldestvarietyofEnglishoutsideBritain(Hickey,2007)andbetweenvarietiesofEnglishhasaspecialpositionwhichisconfirmedbySiedmundandPietsch(2008:

5、87),“IrishEnglishrepresentsoneofthemostinterestingandintriguinglanguagecontactsituationsintheEnglishspeakingworld.Itinvolvescontactbetweentwogeneticallyrelated,buttypologicallyfairlydistantlanguages–IrishandEnglish…”IfwethinkaboutothervarietiesofEnglish,suchasAmericanorAu

6、stralianEnglish,wehavetorealizethatnoneofthemwasinfluencedbyanyofthenativelanguagesofthecountriesasinthecaseofIrishEnglish.NowadaysIrishEnglishrepresentstwolanguageswhichhavebeencoexistingnexttwoeachotherforcenturies.DuringthistimeEnglishoftheIrishadoptedmanyfeaturesofthe

7、nativesandthisistheareaofmyinterest.ThethesisdealswithsomepeculiaritiesofIrishEnglishnamelywiththoseofIrishEnglishgrammarwhichareinfluencedbytheIrishlanguage.However,thisisstillanextensiveareaforstudiesandthusonlysomeofthestructuresofIrishEnglishgrammarwerechosenforthepur

8、posesofthethesis.ThestructureschosenhaveclearparallelsintheIrishlanguagewhich,however,doesnotimp