The progressive in Older Scots

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Addresses vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Two types of passivization of ‘V+NP+P’ constructions in relation to idiomatization 9
7. On the development of a friend of mine 23
8. Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures 43
9. Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered 67
10. The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English 99
11. From gold-gifa to chimney sweep ? 111
12. A path to volitional modality 131
13. Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use - wise ? 157
14. The loss of the indefinite pronoun man 181
15. The progressive in Older Scots 203
16. Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspective 231
17. Morphology recycled 255
18. Name index 283
19. Subject index 289