The widow and her children stayed in a croft on the farm.
Farms, both freehold and leasehold, were almost exclusively run by farmer couples and the same was true for crofts.
Knitting was 'a non-negotiable part of croft life' (99).
In addition, the man had to have a profession, a farm or a croft.
If wills, marriage articles and transmissions of crofts and cottages without land are excluded, about 750 records are left.
Croft (1994) discusses ways in which an event can be construed so that different entities are focused on as beginning or end points.
Croft's overall intention is to say that one can do grammar largely without form, but not without meaning.
Croft (2003) does not recognize facultative expression or semantic specificity as a criterion of markedness at all.
