Lisa Gotthard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lisa Gotthard is involved.

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English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL

Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] 2022. vi, 185 pp.

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Gotthard, Lisa 2024 Subject-verb agreement and the rise of do -support in the period of anglicisation of Scots Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 53–79 | Chapter

Scots subject-verb (S-V) agreement is historically distinct from that of (Standard) English, as Older Scots employed a version of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR). It has been suggested that the NSR is a similar last-resort operation to do-support (de Haas 2011), giving rise to the question of… read more