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The Autonomous and the Passive Progressive in 20th-Century Irish [Elektronisk resurs]

Hansson, Karin, 1970- (författare)
Ó Corráin, Ailbhe (preses)
Watson, Seosamh (opponent)
Uppsala universitet Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet (utgivare)
Publicerad: Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2004
Engelska 176
Serie: Studia Celtica Upsaliensia, 1104-5515 1104-5515 ; 5
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  • E-bokAvhandling(Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2004)
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  • The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh , ‘letters were dispatched’) and the passive progressive (e.g. bhí m’athair á leigheas acu , ‘my father was being cured by them’), in a corpus of 20th-century texts. From this corpus, 2,956 instances of the autonomous and 467 instances of the passive progressive were extracted and included in the analysis. Dialectal variation concerning the use of these two constructions is also surveyed. The study explores and compares the use of the autonomous and the passive progressive. The main aim of the study is to investigate the two constructions with regard to their textual functions. The features studied relate to verb and clause type, as well as the measuring of topicality of patients, implicit agents, and – in the passive progressive only – overt agents. The autonomous tends to be used when the patient is topical, or central, in the text. The passive progressive, on the other hand, is mainly used with an overt agent that is considerably more topical than the patient. In agent-less passive progressives, patients and implicit agents are equally low in topicality. The autonomous occurs about equally often in main and subclauses, while the passive progressive is used primarily in subclauses, mainly non-finite ones. This difference is connected to the finding that 24% of the clauses containing the autonomous denote events as part of a sequentially ordered chain of events, compared to 4% of those containing the passive progressive. The most salient dialectal variation concerns the frequency of the passive progressive: 73% of the instances of the passive progressive in the database occur in the Munster texts, compared to 22% in Connacht 5% in Ulster. The autonomous, in contrast, is fairly evenly distributed across the dialects. 

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Humanities and the Arts  (hsv)
Languages and Literature  (hsv)
Specific Languages  (hsv)
Humaniora och konst  (hsv)
Språk och litteratur  (hsv)
Studier av enskilda språk  (hsv)
HUMANITIES and RELIGION  (svep)
Languages and linguistics  (svep)
Other languages  (svep)
Celtic languages  (svep)
HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP  (svep)
Språkvetenskap  (svep)
Övriga språk  (svep)
Keltiska språk  (svep)
Celtic Languages  (uu)
keltiska språk  (uu)

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Celtic languages
autonomous
agent
corpus linguistics
impersonal
discourse function
Irish
passive
passive progressive
patient
topicality
Keltiska språk
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