Do the wealthy stay healthy? : Rich agreement and verb movement in early English

Walkden, George

Do the wealthy stay healthy? : Rich agreement and verb movement in early English

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2021

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Journal of Historical Syntax. Universität Konstanz. 2021, 5(30). eISSN 2163-6001. Available under: doi: 10.18148/hs/2021.v5i30.77

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This paper is a review of the evidence and arguments that have been put forward for a major causal role for the loss of rich agreement in driving changes in verb movement in the history of English. It focuses particularly on Kroch & Taylor (1997), who propose a scenario in which the rise and fall of strict V2 in English is inextricably linked with rich verbal agreement. I provide some reasons to doubt this story: in particular, theories of rich agreement do not make the predictions needed for Kroch & Taylor’s account. Moreover, I show that the distribution of verb movement in historical Englishes is arguably not what would be predicted under any account of rich agreement. Finally, I sketch an alternative account for the loss of verb movement based on developments in the Modern English mood and aspect system.

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WALKDEN, George, 2021. Do the wealthy stay healthy? : Rich agreement and verb movement in early English. In: Journal of Historical Syntax. Universität Konstanz. 2021, 5(30). eISSN 2163-6001. Available under: doi: 10.18148/hs/2021.v5i30.77

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@article{Walkden2021wealt-54990,
  year={2021},
  doi={10.18148/hs/2021.v5i30.77},
  title={Do the wealthy stay healthy? : Rich agreement and verb movement in early English},
  number={30},
  volume={5},
  journal={Journal of Historical Syntax},
  author={Walkden, George}
}

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