In Tohoku, だ can follow verbs and い-adjectives, as I've heard (I've never
actually spoken to someone from Tohoku). What purpose does it serve? Is a
sentence ending in just a verb ungrammatical in Tohoku? And is this form used
by Tohoku women?
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The Tohoku use of だ
That's a misconception. In Tohoku dialect, the copula だ doesn't follow verbs
and i-adjective.

It seems some dialect(s) in Kanto or around there has/have that form. But I'm
not sure.
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In really rural, "pure" Tohoku dialect this is true. However, with the spread
of Standard Japanese this is disappearing in young and working-age people.
Even amongst the elderly it doesn't occur after everything, but it is common
and grammatically correct within the dialect. This can also apply to "degasu"
or "degozarusu", the Tohoku equivalent to "desu" or "degozaimasu", instead of
taking the usual -ou ending to an -i adjective.

e.g. hayai > ohayou gozaimasu = ohayou gozarusu (because this is a set
greeting) but [ii "de"gozaru(su)] instead of [you gozaru/gozaimasu]

Examples of this can be found in some of the example sentences on this
website: <https://konnok3.sakura.ne.jp/sendai01.html#sendai01>
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