7 The nominative and infinitive

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations XI
5. List of Tables XIII
6. List of Figures XV
7. Part I: Introduction
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. Part II: Language change and special passives
10. 2 A theory of language change 13
11. 3 Systemic change and the rise of the passive 43
12. 4 The development of special passives 77
13. Part III: Connecting individual and community grammars
14. 5 The EMMA corpus 117
15. 6 The prepositional passive 131
16. 7 The nominative and infinitive 175
17. 8 Networks in adult cognition 219
18. Part IV: Summary and conclusions
19. 9 Conclusion 267
20. 10 Appendix 279
21. Bibliography 287
22. Index 318