Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. * haitan in Gothic and Old English 17
5. Incipient Grammaticalisation 41
6. Passive auxiliaries in English and German 71
7. Causative habban in Old English 101
8. Remembering ( ge)munan 127
9. The emergence of modal meanings from haben with zu -infinitives in Old High German 151
10. Hearsay and lexical evidentials in Old Germanic languages, with focus on Old English 169
11. Markers of Futurity in Old High German and Old English 195
12. The Verb to be in the West Saxon Gospels and the Lindisfarne Gospels 217
13. Aspectual properties of the verbal prefix a - in Old English with reference to Gothic 235
14. Þǣr wæs vs. thâr was 263
15. On gain and loss of verbal categories in language contact 289
16. Index 313