The construction like + past participle has the Irish origins. The construction need
+ past participle is of Scottish and Irish origin. The construction want + past participle
may have Irish of German origins; the construction want + directional adverb is Irish:
The cat wants out [21].
The usage of n’at instead of and that: He's gonna find aht who's; nebby n'at
Derived from: He's going to find out who's; Nosy and so forth
N'at may mean "so forth" or along with some other stuff, the previous was just
an example of more general case or (Glasgow, Scotland) I know this isn’t stated as
clearly as it might be, but you know what I mean. This feature is widely used in the
South-Western. It is of the Scottish or Irish origins.
CONCLUSION
The English lyric texts have their great influence on the recipients as they are
fulfilled with cultural and emotional component. The linguistic interest of this paper is
based on discoursive approach, especially its lexico-grammatical means of
verbalization within modern author English lyrics (Eurodisco texts) and folk songs (the
Pittsburgh Speech texts).
Eurodisco English lyrics songs’ category of personality is an important syntactic
category, which demonstrates the degree of remoteness of man’s consciousness.
Eurodisco ELT personal network contains two bonded entities such as personal
and impersonal models. Personal model of Eurodisco ELT is represented by subject –
personal pronoun of the first person singular I. There are also some deviations from the
prototype that disclose a person shown by personal pronouns as she, he or exceptional
nouns – the names of people Johnny, Sarah etc. There are some subjects, represented
by nouns to denote different plurality types on the periphery of the sentences of the
personal type. A generalized-personal subject is equidistant from prototype personal
and prototype impersonal sentences. mostly presented in Eurodisco ELT by you and it
can be linked with personal subject I. Impersonal sentences are more rarely used in
Eurodisco ELT and fall into such subtypes as impersonal sentences referring to the
physical, emotional and mental states of a man; impersonal sentences referring to the
category of modality; impersonal sentences indicating the location of an object;
impersonal sentences on the designation of natural phenomena.
All these indicate that such features can be seen as a reference to different social
and cultural groups and their tend to make their language survived and popularized
within their community.
It is believed that the media makes the United States more homogeneous. Usually,
many Americans believe that the phonetic features of the language may disappear,
since many people move around the United States; moreover, it has become easier than
it used to be for some people to move in different social classes earlier. Job vacancies
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