Some aspects of the history of the Be+ing construction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Dedicatory preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Lemmatization — the case of ‘Catalpa’ 1
5. Marking and frequency in the english verb 11
6. Complements and humours 29
7. Problems in dyirbal dialectology 43
8. The phonological representation of the welsh mutations 75
9. Has every sentence a theme and a rheme? 97
10. Isophones or isographs? A problem in historical dialectology 117
11. The de-automization of meaning 129
12. ‘Thwaite’ 161
13. Rhymes and reasons, the practice of two poets 169
14. two geminate consonants in old english? 187
15. Borrow, calgue and switch 203
16. The stylistic analysis of poetic texts 239
17. Old english Man ‘One’ 277
18. Simplifying the grammar of english 285
19. Verbal aspect 307
20. Communicative needs in the learning and use of english 321
21. Supplementing corpus elicitation 379
22. Latin for old english in anglo-saxon manuscripts 395
23. Wh- and Yes/no questions 401
24. Some aspects of the history of the Be+ing construction 427
25. A note on the indefinite article 475
26. Written language as a heterogeneous system 485