1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XVII
4. 1. Structure
5. 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity 1
6. Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English 3
7. On the history of relative that 27
8. The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs 53
9. On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English 77
10. The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal”? 103
11. 1.2. Form and function 123
12. Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English 125
13. The position of the adjective in Old English 153
14. On the history of the s-genitive 183
15. The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English 211
16. Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation 233
17. 2. Text types
18. Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change 261
19. The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century 283
20. The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts 299
21. 3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
22. Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period 329
23. The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or “Howe the Scots will declare themselv ’s” 373
24. Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century 395
25. Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots 417
26. Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English 439
27. Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography 455
28. 4. Phonology
29. HappY-tensing: A recent innovation? 483
30. Syllable ONSET in the history of English 499
31. Name index 541
32. Subject index 551