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Publication details [#51351]
O'Keeffe, Anne and Carolina P. Amador Moreno. 2009. The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English. Intercultural Pragmatics 6 (4) : 517–534. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study argues that as the pragmatically specialized functions of the Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ construction do not have an appropriate equivalent in Standard English, the structure was and will remain a part of the Irish English core grammar.