‘You Ø na hear o’ that kind o’ things’: Negative do in Buckie Scots
‘You Ø na hear o’ that kind o’ things’: Negative do in Buckie Scots
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“你不会听到那种事情”：巴基苏格兰人的负面行为
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2000
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Jennifer Smith
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Jennifer Smith
本文对苏格兰东北部方言Buckie中否定陈述句现在时态中的do缺失进行了定量分析。对近800个使用语境的分析表明，这种变化完全是由语言内部制约条件。其中最重要的是人称和主语的数量-第三人称单数主语和复数NP没有do缺失，而do在其余代词中是可变的。我认为，句法解释最好的帐户这种模式的使用。在现在时态中没有明显的-s变化的地方（受“北方主语规则”的影响），do在Buckie Scots中不是强制性的。频率效应，词汇的限制和处理的限制被要求占的频率范围内的做缺席的变量上下文。最后，在三代说话人中，do的使用没有显著变化，突出了社区成员对规范性规范的相对免疫力。
In this article, I conduct a quantitative analysis of do absence in negative declaratives in the present tense in a dialect from the north-east of Scotland, Buckie. Analysis of nearly 800 contexts of use reveals that this variation is entirely conditioned by linguistic internal constraints. The most significant of these is person and number of the subject — 3rd person singular subjects and plural NPs have no do absence, while do is variable in the remaining pronouns. I argue that a syntactic explanation best accounts for this patterning of use. Where there is no overt -s inflection in the present tense (influenced by the “northern subject rule”), do is not obligatory in Buckie Scots. Frequency effects, lexical restrictions and processing constraints are called upon to account for the range of frequencies of do absence seen in the variable contexts. Lastly, there is no significant change in use of do across three generations of speakers, highlighting the community members’ relative immunity to prescriptive norms.