The Northern Subject Rule in the present plural indicative in Older Scots. A corpus study of the Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots (1380-1500)

This study focuses on how the Northern Subject Rule functions in the first, second, and third person plural contexts of the present indicative in Older Scots. It confirms that these plural forms were subject to the NSR between 1380 and 1500 based on the analysis of the corpus Linguistic Atlas of Old...

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Author: Ayala Díaz, Ana
Format: master thesis
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/170903
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/170903
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Northern Subject Rule
Older Scots
Proximity-to-Subject Constraint
Type-of-Subject Constraint
Regla del norte
Escocés antiguo
Restricción de Proximidad al Sujeto
Restricción de Tipo de Sujeto
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Summary:This study focuses on how the Northern Subject Rule functions in the first, second, and third person plural contexts of the present indicative in Older Scots. It confirms that these plural forms were subject to the NSR between 1380 and 1500 based on the analysis of the corpus Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots, and it investigates the interrelated behaviour of the Proximity-to-Subject Constraint and the Type-of-Subject Constraint. Furthermore, this paper explores the force of the first constraint, which has recently been considered to be weaker than the second.