The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword 1
4. Millennial perspectives
5. From etymology to historical pragmatics 19
6. Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics 51
7. Dialectology and the history of the English language 79
8. Origin unknown 109
9. Issues for a new history of English prosody 125
10. Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur? 153
11. A rejoinder to Youmans and Li 177
12. Phonology and metrics
13. On the development of English r 183
14. Vowel variation in English rhyme 207
15. Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change 231
16. Dating criteria for Old English poems 245
17. How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? 267
18. Restoration of /a/ revisited 283
19. Morphosyntax/Semantics
20. Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English 301
21. Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English 325
22. Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs 355
23. The “have” perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? 373
24. Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions 399
25. The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics 417
26. Envoy
27. A thousand years of the history of English 449
28. Backmatter 473