On the use of the past to explain the present

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Editor’s foreword v
3. Table of contents vii
4. 1. Phonology
5. Tertiary stress in Old English 3
6. Verse structure as evidence for prosodic reconstructions in Old English 13
7. On the syllable weight -VC# in Old English 39
8. Old English short diphthongs and the theory of Glide emergence 57
9. On the use of the past to explain the present 73
10. 2. Morphology
11. Verbal derivation in English 93
12. Snowball effect in lexical diffusion 119
13. The 3rd plural present indicative in early modern English 143
14. Morphological standardization 161
15. 3. Lexis
16. Scandinavian loans and processes of word-formation in ME 185
17. Towards syntactic isomorphism and semantic dissimilation 199
18. 4. Syntax
19. Evidence for clitic adverbs in old English 223
20. Verbal complementation in early ME 247
21. A look at the That/Zero variation in Restoration English 271
22. The case of the unmarked pronoun 287
23. 5. Sociohistorical linguistics
24. Social stratification in Tudor English? 303
25. Social network theory and Eighteenth-century English 327
26. Eighteenth-century normative grammar in practice 339
27. The Jocks and the Geordies 363
28. 6. Indexes
29. Index of persons 385
30. Index of concepts and terms 391