Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Old and Middle English
6. The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English 3
7. The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English 23
8. Verb types and word order in Old and Middle English non-coordinate and coordinate clauses 49
9. From locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive and 'PROG imperfective drift' 69
10. Gender assignment in Old English 89
11. On the position of the OE quantifier e all and PDE a ll 109
12. On the Post-Finite Misagreement phenomenon in Late Middle English 125
13. Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English 141
14. Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates 157
15. Part II. Early and Late Modern English
16. Adverb-marking patterns in Earlier Modern English coordinate constructions 183
17. 'Tis he, 'tis she, 'tis me, 'tis – I don't know who … cleft and identificational constructions in 16th to 18th century English plays 203
18. Emotion verbs with to -infinitive complements: From specific to general predication 223
19. Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English 241
20. Index of subjects & terms 257