“My Mother, Whenever She Passed Away, She Had Pneumonia” : The History and Functions of whenever
Journal of English Linguistics, (2001)Abstract
In employing more varied, more comprehensive, and older sources, researchers have in recent years made many strides in reconstructing grammatical features of American English and in determining their trans-Atlantic connections. For instance, Montgomery and Nagle (1994) establish that emigrants from Ulster brought combinations of modal verbs (might could, might can, etc.), and Mont-gomery (1997a, forthcoming) documents the influence of settlers from Ulster and north Britain in marking verbal concord with certain third-person plural subjects (people goes vs. they go).