Syntactic change and borrowing: The case of the accusative-and-infinitive construction in English

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: On “internal” and “external” in syntactic change 1
4. Syntactic change and borrowing: The case of the accusative-and-infinitive construction in English 17
5. External triggers and internal guidance in syntactic development: Coordinating conjunction 89
6. Do and tun: A semantics and varieties based approach to syntactic change 131
7. Sentence connection as an expression of medieval principles of representation 157
8. Grammatical variation and divergence in Vernacular Black English 175
9. Internal and external factors in syntactic change in an historical speech community 201
10. Counterfactual may have 229
11. Changes in subject marking in Japanese 257
12. Relative clauses in Tok Pisin: Is there a natural pathway? 295
13. The pairing of structure and function in syntactic development 317
14. The history of subordinating conjunctions in some Romance languages 341
15. Internal and external factors in the stabilization of verb-last order in Dutch infinitive clauses 355
16. Word order change by grammaticalization 395
17. On the role of prosodic features in syntactic change 417
18. Discourse and diachrony: The rise and fall of Old French SI 433
19. Subject index 475
20. 483-486 483