Irish English and the Ulster Scots Controversy by Jeffrey Kallen
From: Ulster Folk Life Vol.45, 1999. (Published by Ulster Folk & Transport
Museum, Cultra)
63. e.g. Robinson, P. Esther; Quaen O Tha Ulidian Pechts (Belfast 1997) and Robinson, P Wake the Tribe O' Dan (Belfast 1998)
64. Fenton, J. The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster Scots in County Antrim (Newtownards 1995)
65. For a review, see Kallen, J. English World Wide 20 (1999) 157-162
66. Wells, op cit 194-196
67 Robinson, Grammar 26-27. See also brief mention by Barry, loc. Cit 113
68. Fenton, op. Cit
69. Hume 'Remarks' 105, cf Joyce, op. Cit 91-93
70. See especially Milroy J. and J. Harris 'When is a merger not a merger?' English World Wide 1 (1980) 199-210 and Harris Phonological Variation.
71. Grant, W.A. and Dixon J.M. Manual of Modern Scots (Cambridge 1921) 130; Robinson, M. (ed) The Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen 1985) passim....
72 Henry, 'Preliminary Report, 110-111
73. Bertz, loc. Cit 41
74. Hickey, R. 'Developments and change in Dublin English' in Jahr, E.H (ed) Language.Change; Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (Berlin, 1999) 213
75 Harris, Phonological Variation
76 Robinson, Grammar, 27
77 Wells, op. Cit., 419-420
78 Robinson, Grammar, 148
79 ibid, 160
80 ibid, 148-`49
81 E.g. Shee, G 'The Irish "brogue" in fiction: A protest' The Month 45 (1882) 363-375 Burte, loc. Cit. 782
82 See Kallen 'Tense and aspect' 3-4 for review
83 Grant and Dixon, op. Cit 112
84 ibid 115-116
85 Craigie, W.A. A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (London 1937-) Grant, W. (ed) The Scottish National Dictionary (Edinburgh, 1931-1976) Montgomery, M. and J. Kirk 'The origin of the habitual verb be in American Black English; Irish or English or what?' Belfast Working Papers in Language and Linguistics 13 (1996) 308-334, DOST and SND give ample evidence of inflected be in Scots, but in simple present or past tense, especially in conditional uses, and not as a habitual marker
86. Grant and Dixon, op. Cit., 134.
87 ibid. 114
88 Robinson, Grammar, 97, see also Fenton op. Cit., 6
89 Robinson, Grammar, 65, 151 |
