Subject-verb agreement and the rise of do -support in the period of anglicisation of Scots
Lisa Gotthard
Abstract:Scots subject-verb (S-V) agreement is historically distinct from that of (Standard) English, as Older Scots employed a version of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR). It has been suggested that the NSR is a similar last-resort operation to do-support (de Haas 2011), giving rise to the question of whether do-support entered grammar competition with the NSR when it emerged in Scots. Using the new Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence (1540–1750), this study explores the presence of these S-V agreement strategies … Show more
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