Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)

hegamonia · Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:51 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

I can't comprehend what you mean?

MrPedantic · Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:54 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

No; but I've heard it from Irish speakers. It also turns up in Anglo-Irish literary texts (e.g. Synge's Playboy of the Western World).

MrP

Molly · Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:58 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

Molly · Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:59 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

MrPedantic · Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:07 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

I've seen an example in a C19 American court transcript. But the speaker may have been Irish(-American). I haven't come across the structure elsewhere.

MrP

hegamonia · Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:12 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

Can you give me the source? Can you give a copy of that transcript?

MrPedantic · Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:20 am *Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.)*

I'm sorry to say I can't remember where I found it, Heg.

But I'll search around a little, and if I find it, I'll post a link.

Best wishes,

MrP

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