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 #2 (permalink) Sun Jun 22, 2008 23:51 pm Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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Hegamonia
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Jun 22, 2008 23:54 pm Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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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).
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Jun 22, 2008 23:58 pm Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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| hegamonia wrote: |
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In some variants it would be "she wants to/needs to sell her car", I think. |
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| #5 (permalink) Sun Jun 22, 2008 23:59 pm Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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| MrPedantic wrote: |
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).
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Is it restricted only to that variant? |
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:07 am Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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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.
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:12 am Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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| Can you give me the source? Can you give a copy of that transcript? |
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| #8 (permalink) Mon Jun 23, 2008 0:20 am Usage of "after doing" (She's after selling her car.) |
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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.
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