Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of participants xi
5. Proceedings of the 4th ICEHL
6. ‘I deny that I’m incapable of working all night’ 3
7. Relative Which in late 18th-century usage 15
8. Lengthening of a in Tyneside English 31
9. The origins of periphrastic Do 45
10. Synchronic variation and linguistic change 61
11. Old English infinitival complements and West-Germanic V-raising 73
12. The simplification of the Old English strong nominal paradigms 85
13. Verb and particle combinations in old and middle English 109
14. The impersonal verb in context 123
15. The south African Chain-shift 137
16. Of Rhyme and reason 163
17. Lexical variation of early modern English exclusive adverbs 179
18. Some remarks on complementation in old English 195
19. The interpretation and development of form alternations conditioned across word boundaries 205
20. A note on the voicing of initial fricatives in middle English 235
21. Expression of exclusiveness in old English and the development of the adverb only 253
22. The great Scandinavian belt 269
23. Discourse markers in early modern English 283
24. Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable 303
25. Preliminaries to the linguistic analysis of old Engllish glosses and glossaries 319
26. The role of INFL in word order change 331