Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The dynamics of changes in the early English inflection 9
5. “Subsumed under the dative”? 35
6. ‘Thone vpon thother’ 57
7. Leveraging grammaticalization 77
8. Old English wolde and sceolde 111
9. A corpus-based study on the development of dare in Middle English and Early Modern English 129
10. Counterfactuality and aktionsart 149
11. Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen’s letters and novels 175
12. Signs of grammaticalization 199
13. From time-before-place to place-before-time in the history of English 223
14. Variation and change at the interface of syntax and semantics 247
15. Further explorations in the grammar of intensifier marking in Modern English 269
16. The rivalry between far from being  + predicative item and its counterpart omitting the copula in Modern English 287
17. Index 309