Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Changing society
6. The great temptation 3
7. Changes in society and language 29
8. Finding evidence for a changing society 57
9. Semantic neology 79
10. From burden to threat 113
11. Part II. Changing language
12. That’s absolutely fine 143
13. Two sides of the same coin? 169
14. So-called - ingly adverbs in Late Middle and Early Modern English 199
15. Analyzing change in the American English amplifier system in the fiction genre 223
16. The development and pragmatic function of a non-inference marker 251
17. Changes in transitivity and reflexive uses of sit ( me / myself down ) in Early and Late Modern English 277
18. Index 303