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- Title
THE LOSS OF THE NORTHERN SUBJECT RULE AND THE RISE OF THE DO-PERIPHRASIS IN 16TH-CENTURY NORTHERN ENGLISH WILLS: A POSSIBLE CASE OF EXAPTATION.
- Authors
CUESTA, JULIA FERNÁNDEZ
- Abstract
Previous research on the resilience of local features in northern English wills has shown that the Northern Subject Rule is a very persistent feature both in plural and first person singular contexts. Evidence from Early Modern English wills from Yorkshire reveals that the syntactic pattern was operative in this text-type until the mid-sixteenth century. This paper explores the decline of the Northern Subject Rule in the last decades of the sixteenth century in this text-type and its correlation with the emergence of the DO-periphrasis in affirmative declaratives.
- Subjects
PERIPHRASIS; EARLY modern English language; SEMANTICS (Philosophy); GRAMMATICALITY (Linguistics); INDICATIVE mood
- Publication
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 2016, Vol 117, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0028-3754
- Publication type
Article