Marije van Hattum
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marije van Hattum plays a role.
2021 Pseudonyms as carriers of contextualised threat in 19th-century Irish English threatening notices English World-Wide 42:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
This paper explores functions of pseudonyms in written threatening communication from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. It addresses the semantic domains present in pseudonyms in a corpus of 19th-century Irish English threatening notices and their cognitive functions in the construction… read more
2015 May and might in nineteenth century Irish English and English English Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 221–246 | Article
This paper discusses the use of may and might in 19th century Irish English and English English. It builds on Van Hattum (2012a), which found that in 18th and 19th century Irish English might Vinf was used in contexts requiring may/might have Ven in present-day English. This paper aims to find out… read more
2014 can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English: A case of ‘imperfect learning’? Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 105–128 | Article
This paper discusses the status of can and be able to in nineteenth-century Irish English in comparison to English English through means of a corpus study of personal letters. Analysis of the data reveals that the use of be able TO is conditioned by the combination of time reference and polarity in… read more
2014 New-dialect formation in medieval Ireland: A corpus-based study of Irish English pre-modal verbs Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 213–238 | Article
This paper discusses the development of medieval Irish English (MIrE) within the model of new-dialect formation (NDF) (Trudgill 2004). In particular, the processes of interdialect development, reallocation, and focusing are discussed with respect to data from sixteen MIrE poems from Harley 913 (c. read more
2012 “A cannot get a loan for more than six years now”: The relationship between modal verbs and past time reference in Irish English New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
This paper discusses three constructions that express past time reference with modal verbs, as documented in a corpus of 18th and 19th century Irish English: (1) instances of the extended-now perfect with the modal verb can; (2) a past tense modal verb (e.g. could, might, should, etc.) followed by… read more