Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule
Marcelle Cole
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.
Marcelle Cole
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marcelle Cole plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 A native origin for Present-Day English they, their, them Diachronica 35:2, pp. 165–209 | Article
It is commonly held that Present-Day English they, their, them are not descended from Old English but derive from the Old Norse third-person plural pronouns þeir, þeira, þeim. This paper argues that the early northern English orthographic and distributional textual evidence agrees with an… read more
2012 The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule: Evidence from the Lindisfarne gloss to the Gospels of John and Mark Language Contact and Development around the North Sea, Stenroos, Merja, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim (eds.), pp. 141–168 | Article
It has generally been assumed that the Northern Subject Rule (NSR), a grammatical constraint which conditioned present verbal morphology in northern Middle English according to the type and position of the subject, did not exist in Old Northumbrian (Pietsch 2005; de Haas 2008). Using data from the… read more