Polish newcomers acquiring questions and questioning in a local dialect

Corrigan, KP; Robinson, M

doi:10.1515/9783111426280

Polish newcomers acquiring questions and questioning in a local dialect

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Karen Corrigan ORCiD, Dr Mary Robinson ORCiD

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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a book chapter that has been published in its final definitive form by De Gruyter, 2025.

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Abstract

This "socio-syntactic" account (in the sense of Cornips & Corrigan 2005) addresses the dynamics of a particular type of subject-auxiliary inversion in embedded interrogatives. It is not considered to be stigmatised and is ascribed to dialects of Irish English (IE) by Berizzi (2010), Corrigan (1997), (2010), Henry (1995) and McCloskey (1992), (2006), which offer a range of analyses for how it operates in the grammar. The focus here is on the origins of the construction as well as the linguistic and social constraints associated with it in varieties of Mid-Ulster English being acquired by newcomers to Northern Ireland of Polish heritage.