Focus on Ireland.
Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this varie...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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John Benjamins Pub. Co.
1997.
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| Series: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 21. |
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