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).
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