Came used relative pronouns due the influence latin and french

Consider the following data for a 20^th century dialect of English.

a Ø was old chaps called tar-s who used to do it.

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Ø was like someone come.past back from the dead to you

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those fellows be.past.sg in the army

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1. Explain, using appropriate grammatical terminology, when null subject is possible in this dialect of English and when it is not possible. Hints: A first step in finding the pattern is to “translate” the sentences into present-day Standard English; I have only given you interlinear glossing. The next thing I would do is identify any embedded clauses. Then I would compare the contexts in which null subject is the only option given, contexts where it is optional, and contexts where it is ungrammatical. This should lead you to finding patterns in the data. 10 points

i Sufficeth, I am come to keep my word.¹ (Petruchio, Taming of the Shrew, III,ii, a Shakespearean play)

background. Cases of truly subordinate relative clauses introduced by a relative marker came into being in the Middle English period (in Old English, it was possible to adjoin a clause to a preceding DP to provide additional information about the DP: the data from the period do not provide evidence of the embedding of relative clauses). At the beginning of the Middle English period, a relative particle Þe was used with animate singular antecedents and another particle Þat was used with inanimate singular antecedents. Both Þe and Þat were used with inanimate plural antecedents. Þe gradually disappeared and Þat took over, used with both animate and inanimate antecedents in both restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses. During this same period, interrogative pronouns which, who, etc. came to be used as relative pronouns (due to the influence of Latin and French). The subject relative pronoun who was introduced into English later than corresponding oblique forms whom and whose.

b Please be your majesty, this is the man that doth accuse his master of high treason... (Suffolk, King Henry VI, Part ii, II.i)

1547: much less then it is lawful for subjects to resist their godly and Christian princes which do not abuse their authority

1569: the Bishop of Carlisle, which was a man well learned and of good courage, stood up…

As you are doing a corpus study, describe the corpus (e.g. size, kind) and how you accessed it. Describe the way you have extracted the data. How did you search for particular constructions in the corpus? How did you determine when you had enough data? In other words, what was your cut-off point?

Present your results. Present a table to summarize your findings. The table should provide easy access to the patterns you have found. In the presentation, illustrate your findings with sample sentences, numbered throughout. (Never tell your reader to refer to the appendix to see your data!)

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