Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lest 11
6. To as a connective in the history of English 31
7. From oþ to till : Early loss of an adverbial subordinator 61
8. Rise of the adverbial conjunctions { any, each, every } time 77
9. The evolution of since in medieval English 97
10. Grammaticalization and syntactic polyfunctionality 115
11. On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives 145
12. A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives 167
13. Forhwi ‘because’: Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection 193
14. Conditionals in Early Modern English texts 229
15. Relatives as sentence-level connectives 255
16. 'Connective profiles' in the history of English texts: Aspects of orality and literacy 289
17. Word Index 309
18. Subject index 313