Channel Island English - Morphosyntax

Morphosyntax

• The Norman Influence is more clearly demonstrable in Channel Island English morphosyntax than in its phonology.

Examples of structures used by people in the Channel Islands are:

• “There's ten years I am a farmer” for “I've been a farmer for ten years.”

• “Me, I don't want to go” or “I don't want to go, me.”

• “That's the one, eh?” Eh for “isn't it?”, “aren't they?”, “don't you think?”, or else.

• “There's two castles there” for “There are two castles there.”

• “... and the teacher, she was angry, eh.” (use of emphatic personal pronoun.)