List of contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of tables and figures VII
4. Grammar – discourse – context: Grammatical variation and change and the usage-based perspective 1
5. Contextualizing Old English noun phrases 15
6. Syntax, text type, genre and authorial voice in Old English: A data-driven approach 49
7. The intensifier system of the Ormulum and the interplay of micro-level and macro-level contexts in linguistic change 93
8. Constructional change across the lifespan: The nominative and infinitive in early modern writers 125
9. Contextualizing dual-form adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus: An assessment of semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic factors 157
10. Bridging contexts in the reanalysis of naturally as a sentence adverb: A corpus study 191
11. From parataxis to amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English 221
12. The role of context in the entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes 249
13. Paradigms, host classes, and ancillariness: A comparison of three approaches to grammatical status 277
14. The motivated unmotivated: Variation, function and context 305
15. Grammar in context: On the role of hypercharacterization in language variation and change 333
16. List of contributors 365
17. Index 367