particles such as
well
,
then
, or
look
and often constitutes a prosodic phrase in its own
right. In contrast, the use of
now
as a temporal adverb, what Hirschberg and Litman
(1993) refer to as sentential
now
or ‘S-use’, occurs most often in non-initial position,
usually collocates with present tense and rarely constitutes a prosodic phrase by itself.
However, as will be examined in the analysis that follows,
now
in Irish English appears
to flout some of these previous findings.
The fact that
now
is such a multi-functional particle means that it should come as no
surprise that it features prominently on spoken word frequency lists. Table 6.4
demonstrates the position of
now
on six corpus frequency lists and its corresponding
frequency per million words in those corpora:
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