Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Verbal -s reconsidered 1
6. Do grammars change when they leak? 15
7. Grammar change versus language change 31
8. Indefinite Pronominal Anaphora in English correspondence between 1500 and 1800 65
9. From resultative predicate to event-modifier 83
10. Family values 103
11. From inventory to typology in English historical dialectology 125
12. Consumers of correctness 153
13. Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect 177
14. On MV/VM order in Beowulf 195
15. DARE and NEED in British and American present-day English 215
16. What drove do? 229
17. The HAVE -‘perfect’ in Old English 243
18. Subject index 257