Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?

Chapters in this book

1. i-vi i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Bibliography of Leon Kellner’s writings 9
5. Should 11
6. On the typological status of Old English 31
7. What positions fit in? 51
8. Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English 103
9. Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry 125
10. The rise of the passive infinitive in English 141
11. Question-answer sequences in Old English 189
12. Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse 203
13. Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English 221
14. Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English? 233
15. Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach 291
16. Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose 303
17. Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis 321
18. The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases 343
19. Semantic aspects of syntactic change 355
20. Subordination and word order change in the history of English 367
21. Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English 409
22. Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English 439
23. On the stylistic basis of syntactic change 469
24. Index of technical terms and topics 493
25. Index of names 501
26. 511-512 511