Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of abbreviations IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English 17
7. On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English 87
8. Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 121
9. Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English 185
10. Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English 267
11. Bibliography 345
12. Index of subjects 365