A new study reveals that in a number of varieties of English spoken in Scotland, the rules of contraction (it’s for it is) seem to differ unexpectedly, and asserts that such differences may shed new light on our understanding of language. The study, ‘Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: the surprising case of Scots’, by Gary Thoms (New York University), David Adger (Queen Mary University of London), Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) and Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow) will be published in September 2019 issue of the scholarly journal Language.
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