Bảy quận với số điểm cao hơn 25% là Waterford, Limerick, Tipperary, Galway, Armagh, Kerry, Kilkenny. Donegal có 19% chấp nhận và lõi Ulster Scots quận Antrim và Down cho thấy chỉ có 5% và 8% tương ứng. | 244 The emergence of Irish English mean acceptance across the thirty-two counties was 22 per cent. The seven counties with a score higher than 25 per cent were Waterford Limerick Tipperary Galway Armagh Kerry Kilkenny. Donegal had 19 per cent acceptance and the core Ulster Scots counties of Antrim and Down showed only 5 per cent and 8 per cent respectively. The latter score lends credence to the view that the stressed reflexives of Irish see section were responsible via transfer for the rise of unbound reflexives in Irish English. In her consideration of contact English Sabban 1982 357-79 looks at the similar use of unbound reflexives in Scotland. She also compares the situation with that in Irish English 1982 375 and points out that in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic similar reflexive pronouns occur. However she does not consider why the personal pronoun does not co-occur with the reflexive pronoun in either Scottish or Irish English apart from suggesting that the pronoun is deleted so that speakers do not have to decide on whether to use I or me in the first person Sabban 1982 379 . Other non-standard reflexives The pronominal base for reflexives in English varies across person and number. The first and second persons have a possessive pronoun as base . my- your- our- but the third person has a oblique form of the personal pronoun . him- her- it- them-. Because of this situation analogical formations which use a possessive pronoun as base for the third person are common in dialects of English . hisself and theirself theirselves are found. In Irish English only the plural shows this analogical form though there is one instance of hisself in Boucicault s The Colleen Bawn 1860 . 148 Theirself as analogical formation a. . after that they feed away theirself. TRS-D M64-1 M b. And if they wanted to go out in the night they could go theirself. WER F55 c. They carry theirselves decent. MLSI M75 Gurteen Co. Laois Resumptive pronouns A pronoun is said
