On nominative case assignment in Old English

Chapters in this book

1. I-X I
2. Double prepositions in English 1
3. Motivations for producing and analyzing compounds in Wulfstan’s sermons 15
4. The degrammaticalization of addressee-satisfaction conditionals in Early Modern English 23
5. From unasecendlic to unspeakable: The role of domain structure in morphological change 33
6. Anthony Huish: A 17th-century English grammarian 53
7. John Bullokar’s “Termes of Art” 63
8. The Dublin Vowel Shift and the historical perspective 79
9. On the ideological boundaries of Old English dialects 107
10. The spread of-ly to present participles 119
11. Inversion after single and multiple topics in Old English 135
12. Epenthesis and Mouillierung in the explanation of i-umlaut: The rise and fall of a theory 151
13. On minor declarative complementizers in the history of English: The case of but 161
14. Bare and to-infinitives in Old English: Callaway revisited 173
15. The interplay of external and internal factors in morphological restructuring: The case of you 189
16. The origins of long-short allomorphy in English 211
17. Modals in past counterfactual conditional protases 241
18. Downsizing the preterite-presents in Middle English 253
19. Social mobility and the decline of multiple negation in Early Modern English 263
20. The grammaticalization in Medieval English 293
21. Evolution theory and lexical diffusion 315
22. On nominative case assignment in Old English 345
23. Social factors and pronominal change in the seventeenth century: The Civil-War effect? 361
24. Towards an integrated view of the development of English: Notes on causal linking 389
25. Problems of functional structure in some relative clauses 407
26. Eighteenth-century linguistics and authorship: The cases of Dyche, Priestley, and Buchanan 435
27. Adverbialization and subject-modification in Old English 443
28. Standardization of English spelling: The eighteenth-century printers’ contribution 457
29. The functional relationship between rules (Old English voicing of fricatives and lengthening of vowels before homorganic clusters) 471
30. Index of subjects 485
31. 490 490