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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 wide range of authentic materials documenting Hiberno-English dialects past and present Filppula examines: * the most distinctive grammatical features of these dialects * relationships with earlier and other regional varieties of English * the continuing influence of the Irish lan

Sociolinguistics --- Irish language --- English language --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact --- Dialects --- Foreign elements --- Irish. --- Grammar. --- Style. --- Influence on English. --- Grammar --- Style --- Ireland --- Irish --- Influence on English --- Areal linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages

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Celtic languages --- Celts --- Celts --- English language --- English language --- English language --- Languages in contact --- Languages in contact --- Influence on English --- Foreign elements --- Celtic --- Roots

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English language --- Languages in contact. --- Linguistic change. --- Linguistic universals. --- Variation.

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Dialectology --- Methodology --- Dialectologie --- Congresses. --- Méthodologie --- Congrès --- Dialectology. --- Dialects --- Language and languages

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This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical research can make to our knowledge of the development of English grammar, especially as realized in lexical development. In illustration of contemporary research trends, the articles in the collection make strong use of extralinguistic factors to discuss language change as well as argue for internal and structural development. The authors are drawn from nine different countries, and each article is followed by a commentary and response that provide actual dialogue about the issues in the field, thus representing world-wide discussion of issues in the history of English. The essays recognize the different audiences for historical variation and change - formal linguists, sociolinguists, and lexicographers - and specifically address the interests and discourse in those areas. The volume shows how historical studies of English are increasingly engaged with contemporary trends in linguistics, at the same time as demonstrating how empirical and other methods can bring classical philology fully into the sphere of contemporary linguistics without abandoning its traditional concerns.

English language --- History. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Grammar, Historical --- History --- Germanic languages --- English/ Language. --- Historical Linguistics.