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Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect
Relic, innovation, analogy and drift
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Jennifer Smith
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction ix
- Verbal -s reconsidered 1
- Do grammars change when they leak? 15
- Grammar change versus language change 31
- Indefinite Pronominal Anaphora in English correspondence between 1500 and 1800 65
- From resultative predicate to event-modifier 83
- Family values 103
- From inventory to typology in English historical dialectology 125
- Consumers of correctness 153
- Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect 177
- On MV/VM order in Beowulf 195
- DARE and NEED in British and American present-day English 215
- What drove do? 229
- The HAVE -‘perfect’ in Old English 243
- Subject index 257
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction ix
- Verbal -s reconsidered 1
- Do grammars change when they leak? 15
- Grammar change versus language change 31
- Indefinite Pronominal Anaphora in English correspondence between 1500 and 1800 65
- From resultative predicate to event-modifier 83
- Family values 103
- From inventory to typology in English historical dialectology 125
- Consumers of correctness 153
- Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect 177
- On MV/VM order in Beowulf 195
- DARE and NEED in British and American present-day English 215
- What drove do? 229
- The HAVE -‘perfect’ in Old English 243
- Subject index 257
