Titlebook: Linguistic Perspectives on a Variable English Morpheme; Let‘s talk about –s Laura Rupp,David Britain Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable

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Introduction,unctions (isomorphism) that reflect a relationship in extra-linguistic reality (so-called ‘diagrammatic iconicity’; Haiman in ., ., 515–540, 1980). We propose that speakers creatively exploit this relationship to convey particular (e.g. social) meaning (cf. De Cuypere in .. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2008).

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Verbal Zero, –s is favoured by pronouns over nouns. We provide a formal syntactic account of the EASR and conclude that in verbal zero varieties, –s is a 3. sg. agreement that has been imposed by standardisation.

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,Verbal –s in Existential , Sentences,vik in ., 1–25, 1981), we will, exploiting an insight from Walker (., ., 147–166, 2007), provide empirical evidence from constraint hierarchies that . may even have iconically grammaticalised further into the sign ..

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,Verbal –s, nature to the extent that speakers use –s to mark relatively inaccessible (discourse-heavy) noun phrases as opposed to pronouns (Ariel in .. CSLI Publications, Stanford, pp. 197–260, 1999; .. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 29–87, 2001). We explore our ‘Iconicity Hypothesis’, showing, amongst other

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