1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of abbreviations XIII
5. Part I: The history of grammar
6. 1. Introduction 3
7. 2. The Greeks and Romans and the first grammatical theory 6
8. 3. The Middle Ages 15
9. 4. Grammar in the Renaissance and the first grammars of English 25
10. 5. Modern linguistics and structuralism 35
11. 6. Chomsky and constituency grammars 49
12. Part II: Synchronic analysis of English syntax
13. 7. Introduction 67
14. 8. Sentence structure of Present-Day English 68
15. 9. Dependency relations and linguistic universals 81
16. 10. Syntactic variation 95
17. 11. Comparative syntax from a synchronic perspective 102
18. 12. Movement and its application to the syntax of English 112
19. Part III: Diachronic analysis of English syntax
20. 13. Introduction 127
21. 14. Sentence structure of Early English 129
22. 15. Dependency relations in Early English 150
23. 16. Syntactic variation in Early English 170
24. 17. Comparative syntax from a diachronic perspective 188
25. 18. Syntactic movement in the history of English 207
26. Epilogue 225
27. Bibliography 227
28. Index 235