Third Person Plural Present Tense Markers in London Prisoners' Depositions, 1562-1623

Wright, Laura

doi:10.1215/00031283-77-3-242

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“…Large-scale corpus data, have, however, been able to demonstrate a fine-grained constraint hierarchy, with different syntactic constructions exerting a differential effect on the occurrence of verbal -s (see Godfrey & Tagliamonte 1999;Wright 2002;Cole 2008). .…”

Section: Structural Linguistic Results: Nsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, Cheshire et al (1989), Godfrey & Tagliamonte (1999), Henry (2002), Wright (2002) and McCafferty (2004) suggest that existential there favours -s. NPs conjoined with and (Montgomery et al 1993;Godfrey & Tagliamonte 1999;Beal & Corrigan 2000;McCafferty 2003) also favour -s marking as do those which occur in relative clause constructions (Montgomery et al 1993;Godfrey & Tagliamonte 1999). Hence, Cheshire et al (1989), Godfrey & Tagliamonte (1999), Henry (2002), Wright (2002) and McCafferty (2004) suggest that existential there favours -s. NPs conjoined with and (Montgomery et al 1993;Godfrey & Tagliamonte 1999;Beal & Corrigan 2000;McCafferty 2003) also favour -s marking as do those which occur in relative clause constructions (Montgomery et al 1993;Godfrey & Tagliamonte 1999).…”

Section: The Northern Subject Rulementioning

confidence: 98%

“…(6) They ganØ and never speaks (SED: Du) Recent accounts of NSR have focused either on the interplay between the factors controlling the TSC and PSC in contemporary dialects beyond the Northern English geographical boundary with which it was first associated (like Wolfram & Christian 1976;Kallen 1991;Montgomery et al 1993;Henry 1995;Montgomery & Fuller 1996;Montgomery 1997;Filppula 1999;Godfrey & Tagliamonte 1999;Schendl 2000;Wright 2002;McCafferty 2003McCafferty , 2004Rupp 2006;Tortora & den Dikken 2010;Zanuttini & Bernstein 2011) or else on the extent to which NSR in all its aspects remains extant in Northern varieties (as in Beal & Corrigan 2000;Pietsch 2005;Cole 2008;Adger & Smith 2010). Our orientation here is towards the latter, so our account in section 4 examines the dynamics of the two major constraints just described in communities at some remove from one another across the linguistic north.…”

Section: The Northern Subject Rulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…(a) Existentials -'There's rats in the garden' (b) Bare quantifiers -'Both needs water' (c) Subject relatives -'The people who wants them' (d) Of them constructions -'All of them likes it' (e) Simple declarative sentences -'My sister wants orange shoes' 22 (f) Occurrence of lexical be and have -'They was very sad' (g) Reduction of be/have -'I's few friends' As one might expect from the results of previous studies on other English vernaculars(Eisikovits 1991;McCafferty 2003;Wright 2002), existentials are most likely to Newcastle χ 2 (18): 104.809, Acceptability rates by Newcastle and Hawick informants for NSR in different types of syntactic construction…”

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T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: questionnaire-based spatial, social and structural linguistics

Buchstaller¹,

Corrigan²,

Holmberg³

et al. 2013

English Language and Linguistics

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Accents and dialects of English and Scots in Britain have been under active investigation for many decades, as reported through the Survey of English Dialects (Orton et al. 1962–71) and the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland (Mather et al. 1975–86), Wells’ three-volume compendium (1982), and a host of detailed studies of individual varieties. There are also welcome recent signs of the reintegration of variation data into theoretical discussion (see Henry 2002, Cornips & Corrigan 2005a and Trousdale & Adger 2007 for morphosyntax, as well as Anttila 2002 and Coetzee & Pater 2011 for phonology). Nonetheless, the precise structural, geolinguistic and sociolinguistic patterning of many features of vernacular Englishes in the UK is still largely unknown.

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Section: Structural Linguistic Results: Nsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Northern Subject Rulementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: The Northern Subject Rulementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 94%

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T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: questionnaire-based spatial, social and structural linguistics

Buchstaller¹,

Corrigan²,

Holmberg³

et al. 2013

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“…However, London had a large population turnover at the time and, over a period of several centuries, the North and North Midlands were major sources of in-migrants belonging to groups for whom documentation exists (Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg, 1996, so there would have been many Northerners with the NSR in London. As Wright (2002) suggested, the Celys' usage might have been typical of merchants who had trading contacts with the North and these networks may have been one way in which plural verbal -s reached London.…”

Section: Geographical Distribution In Late Middle and Early Modern Enmentioning

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The Northern Subject Rule in Ulster: How Scots, how English?

McCafferty

2003

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In diffusionist accounts of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR), this subject-verb concord system spread from Scotland via Ulster to North America and elsewhere. Thus, the NSR in Mid-Ulster English dialects of districts originally settled from England is attributed to diffusion from Ulster-Scots. But the NSR was also a feature of dialects of the North and North Midlands, the regions that contributed most of the English settlers to the Ulster Plantation. Since English and Scottish settlement patterns established in the seventeenth century have been reflected in Ulster dialect boundaries since then, the founder principle provides an alternative account of the persistence of the NSR in Northern Irish English. Usage in nineteenth-century emigrant letters indicates that the NSR was as strong in English-influenced dialects of Mid-Ulster as in Ulster-Scots and suggests that the NSR in Ulster may be a direct import from England as well as Scotland. and Ireland. Areas settled mainly by Scots, Ulster-Scots from the North of Ireland (often Scotch-Irish in American usage), and English still differ in dialect lexicon and features of phonology, morphology, and syntax in ways that can be traced back to their regional roots across the Atlantic (see, e.g., Wolfram & Schilling-Estes, 1998:102-107). As shown in the map in Figure 1, the boundaries between the major varieties of Northern Irish English (NIE) reflect the linguistic influence of English and Scottish founder populations, in that relatively English (Mid-Ulster) and Scottish (Ulster-Scots) dialects are found in parts of the province settled in the seventeenth century from England and Scotland, respectively (Barry

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Nevalainen¹

2020

Language Change

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Third Person Plural Present Tense Markers in London Prisoners' Depositions, 1562-1623

Cited by 39 publications

References 16 publications

T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: questionnaire-based spatial, social and structural linguistics

T-to-R and the Northern Subject Rule: questionnaire-based spatial, social and structural linguistics

The Northern Subject Rule in Ulster: How Scots, how English?

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