Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: The surprising case of scots
This article is concerned with the distribution of contracted auxiliaries in English, in particular the restriction against their occurrence in the immediate context of a gap created by movement or ellipsis. We document apparent exceptions to this restriction in varieties of Scots, all occurring in...
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Linguistic Society of America
2019
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