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Grammatical change
Kuiper and Allan Chapter 8.2.9
Grammatical change
• Data
– *Know you the way to San José?
– Knows your honour not the way?
• Grammatical rules can change over
time.
Verb raising
• Suppose that tense starts off by itself and is
attached to a verb stem by movement.
• Data
– a. Joanna was not coming.
– b. Joanna had not come.
– c. The ball was not found.
– d. Joanna did not find the ball.
• Auxiliary verbs can attach to tense. Main verbs
can't when not intervenes.
Shakespeare's English
• Data
– Negative sentences
• The knave eats not his porridge.
– Yes/no questions:
• Know you not the answer?
– WH questions
• How slept your majesty