Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Getting things started: by way of introduction 1
4. 2 Linguistic background 5
5. 3 Historical background 17
6. 4 The documents to be used: a corpus 45
7. 5 Thematic structure: a starting point 61
8. 6 Transitivity: actions, events, states 99
9. 7 Modality: possibility, ability, obligation 125
10. 8 Nominalization: reifying processes 147
11. 9 Winding up and winding down: by way of conclusion 163
12. Appendix 1: Estimated number of words 169
13. Appendix 2: Journal des Sçavans corpus 171
14. Appendix 3 : Philosophical Transactions corpus 185
15. References 193
16. Author index 203
17. Subject index 205