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According to Generative Grammar (recently the Minimalist Program), language change results from resetting of parameters. Likewise, the origin of English do-support can be explained by parameter-resetting mediated by markedness. In the middle of the 16th century, the parameter-resetting from Tense with strong V feature to Tense with weak V feature regarding the origin of periphrastic do began, as the so-called do-support appeared, and resetting was nearly complete by 1700. The resetting from Tense with strong V feature to Tense with weak V feature makes it possible to adopt do-support. As shown in Ellegård(1953:162)’s figure of percentage of do-forms in various types of sentences, when Early Modern English starts, the frequency of do-support is rather low, but is already rising precipitously in negative and interrogative sentences, and continues to rise without much variation throughout the period. The percentage of do-support is always highest in negative questions, followed by affirmative questions, and then by negative declarative sentences. By 1700, the affirmative declarative curve is approaching zero, while the three curves are all above 75 percent and are rising precipitously, with parameter-resetting to Tense with weak V feature from Tense with strong V feature resulting. Between the start of parameter-resetting and the end of it, markedness plays a role in that at the start the do-support forms are rather marked and later grow less marked, and more unmarked, resulting in parameter-resetting.