Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Language abbreviations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The dialects of Middle English 7
7. 3. Syntactic change 37
8. 4. Word order change in Early Middle English 75
9. 5. Object movement 121
10. 6. V2 and cliticisation of subject pronouns 223
11. 7. Stylistic fronting 275
12. 8. Summary and conclusions 331
13. Appendices 335
14. References 339
15. Index 351