Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Syntax and word order
6. Parataxis and hypotaxis in the history of English 10
7. Two types of left-dislocation in Old English 34
8. Subject-verb agreement and the rise of do -support in the period of anglicisation of Scots 53
9. Part II. Diachronic linguistic change
10. A modern light on diachronic processes affecting coda /l/ in English 82
11. Modality and the English subjunctive in noun clauses 103
12. Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts 120
13. Part III. Lexicography and lexis
14. The unfinished double glosses in Durham Cathedral Library, MS A.iv.19 144
15. Early modern manuscripts containing Old English dictionaries in England and northern Germany 166
16. Loss of wiþer -words in English 191
17. Investigating the dynamics of the lexicon 212
18. Index 233