Nynke de Haas

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nynke de Haas plays a role.

Title

Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009

Edited by Ans M.C. van Kemenade and Nynke de Haas

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 320] 2012. xxi, 404 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics

Article

Haas, Nynke de 2008 The origins of the Northern Subject Rule English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dossena, Marina, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti (eds.), pp. 111–130 | Article

This paper explores the possible origins of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR). In this morphosyntactic pattern, found in Northern Middle English, present-tense verbal inflection varies according to the type of subject (pronoun or noun) and (non-)adjacency of the subject to the verb. I argue that… read more