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1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity
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Chapters in this book
- I-IV I
- Preface V
- Contents XVII
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1. Structure
- 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity 1
- Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English 3
- On the history of relative that 27
- The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs 53
- On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English 77
- The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”? 103
- 1.2. Form and function 123
- Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English 125
- The position of the adjective in Old English 153
- On the history of the s-genitive 183
- The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English 211
- Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation 233
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2. Text types
- Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change 261
- The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century 283
- The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts 299
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3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
- Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period 329
- The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or “Howe the Scots will declare themselv ’s” 373
- Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century 395
- Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots 417
- Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English 439
- Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography 455
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4. Phonology
- HappY-tensing: A recent innovation? 483
- Syllable ONSET in the history of English 499
- Name index 541
- Subject index 551
Chapters in this book
- I-IV I
- Preface V
- Contents XVII
-
1. Structure
- 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity 1
- Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English 3
- On the history of relative that 27
- The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs 53
- On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English 77
- The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”? 103
- 1.2. Form and function 123
- Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English 125
- The position of the adjective in Old English 153
- On the history of the s-genitive 183
- The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English 211
- Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation 233
-
2. Text types
- Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change 261
- The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century 283
- The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts 299
-
3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
- Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period 329
- The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or “Howe the Scots will declare themselv ’s” 373
- Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century 395
- Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots 417
- Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English 439
- Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography 455
-
4. Phonology
- HappY-tensing: A recent innovation? 483
- Syllable ONSET in the history of English 499
- Name index 541
- Subject index 551