Editing Newfoundland English (section)

=== Northern Subject Rule ===
Newfoundland English often follows the [[Northern Subject Rule]], a legacy of settlement from southeastern Ireland, which in turn was influenced by the [[Anglo-Irish]] settlement from [[Northern England]] into Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/eww.25.1.04mcc/details |title=Mobile Menu |work=benjamins.com |access-date=26 January 2017}}</ref> For example, the verb "to fly" is conjugated for third-person plural as "the birds flies." According to a 2011 study by Philip Comeau,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Philip |first1=Comeau |title=Verbal -s in Vernacular Newfoundland English: A Combined Variationist and Formal Account of Grammatical ChangeVariationist and Formal Account of Grammatical Change |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=pwpl}}</ref> that feature of Newfoundland English differs from the rule of dialects in Northern England because Newfoundland uses it as a marker of [[habitual aspect]] or verb [[stativity]].