Linguistic Perspectives on a Variable English Morpheme Let's talk about -s /

• Main Authors: Rupp, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Britain, David (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.

This book investigates -s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions. It embraces the many ways in which -s marking varies across the English speaking world, and considers both how it arose in these places histor...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Verbal -s
• Chapter 2: Verbal Zero
• Chapter 3: Past BE
• Chapter 4: Verbal -s in Existential there sentences
• Conclusion.