Marcelle Cole

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcelle Cole is involved.

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Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule

Marcelle Cole

This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 25] 2014. xvii, 286 pp.

Articles

Cole, Marcelle 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

Cole, Marcelle 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