Abstract
The Irish English grammatical form known as the ‘accomplishment perfect’, the ‘medial-object perfect’, the ‘resultative perfective’ and the ‘pseudo-perfect’, among other terms, is the topic of many discussions which focus on its temporal-aspectual profile yet mostly overlook its complex semantics. The present chapter builds on John Kirk and Jeffrey Kallen’s work by offering a new perspective on constructions with the syntactic pattern [NP have NP past participle] within a framework of Construction Grammar and prototype theory. It argues that this much-discussed feature of Irish English grammar is in fact two separate form-meaning pairings: the causer have construction and the experiencer have construction. Based on data from a corpus of spoken traditional Irish English, it outlines for each construction its prototypical properties and their extensions and discusses the structural and semantic variation they display within Irish English and in comparison to Standard English.
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