Markku Filppula

List of John Benjamins publications in which Markku Filppula is involved.

Title

Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002

Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä

Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.

Articles

Filppula, Markku 2012 Exploring grammatical differences between Irish and British English New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 85–100 | Article

This paper focuses on verb syntax and especially the use of modal auxiliaries with the progressive form (MODAL + be V-ing) in standard and nonstandard spoken varieties of Irish and British English. Modal auxiliaries are known to be undergoing major changes in present-day Englishes, while increasing… read more

Filppula, Markku 2008 The Celtic hypothesis hasn't gone away: New perspectives on old debates English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dossena, Marina, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti (eds.), pp. 153–170 | Article

The majority of scholarly opinion has long held that Celtic influence on English has been minimal on all levels of language. This is usually put down to the socially and politically inferior status of the Celts vis-à-vis their Anglo-Saxon conquerors, which then explains the small number of Celtic… read more

Filppula, Markku 1997 The Influence of Irish on Perfect Marking in Hiberno-English: The Case of the “Extended-now” Perfect Focus on Ireland, Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.), pp. 51–72 | Article