The Northern Subject Rule in first-person singular contexts in fourteenth-fifteenth-century Scots
The article focuses on the operation of the Northern Subject Rule in the firstperson singular in early Scots. It establishes that the first-person singular was under the scope of the NSR in the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, with a near-categorical operation of the Proximity-to-Subject Cons...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/89061 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/89061 https://doi.org/10.1515/flih.2013.006 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Northern Subject Rule Older Scots Proximity-to-Subject Constraint |
| Sumario: | The article focuses on the operation of the Northern Subject Rule in the firstperson singular in early Scots. It establishes that the first-person singular was under the scope of the NSR in the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, with a near-categorical operation of the Proximity-to-Subject Constraint. In addition, it reveals the strength of this constraint, which in recent literature has generally been assumed to be less robust than the Type-of-Subject Constraint. A comparison with Northern Middle English suggests that Scots was more advanced in the operation of the NSR. |
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