page_title: Channel Island English
section_title: Morphosyntax
hierarchical_section_title: Channel Island English / Morphosyntax
caption_attribution_description: English: Saint Peter Port, Guernsey Nrf: Saint Pierre Port (Guernési)
context_page_description: Channel Island English refers to Alderney English, Guernsey English and Jersey English and similar dialects of English found in the other Channel Islands.
context_section_description: 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.)
caption: "I love Guernsey, me" - this slogan on a cup demonstrates the typical use of the emphatic pronoun
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