Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax.

Intro -- DEVELOPMENTS IN ENGLISH HISTORICAL MORPHO-SYNTAX -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Survey -- 2. Nominal constructions -- 3. Verbal constructions -- 4. Adverbs and adverbials -- References -- The dynamics of changes in the early English inflection: Evidence from the Old English nominal system -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Restructuring of the Old English nominal inflection: Major tendencies -- 3. Factors affecting the dynamics of changes in the nominal paradigms -- 3.1 Frequency of occurrence (use) -- 3.2 Morpho-phonological salience of inflectional exponents -- 3.3 Neutral forms and analogical pressure -- 3.4 Interaction between frequency and morpho-phonological salience -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- "Subsumed under the dative"?: The status of the Old English instrumental -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is a "vestigial" case? -- 3. Distributional analysis: Frequencies and collexemes -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Instrumental-case determiners -- 3.3 Instrumental-case adjectives -- 3.4 Interim synthesis and discussion -- 4. Fixed formulae or productive pattern? -- 5. What influences the degree to which the instrumental is used? -- 6. Conclusion: The instrumental as "vestigial" -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 'Thone vpon thother': On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the stage - The DP cycle and double articulation of definiteness -- 3. The pronouns tone/thone and tother/thother in ME -- 4. The origins of tone/thone and tother/thother -- 5. A correlation between reduced th' and development of tone/thone and tother/thother -- 6. Toward an account of thone/thother and tone/tother -- 7. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Leveraging grammaticalization: The origins of Old Frisian and Old English -- 1. Introduction.

2. Grammaticalization as a diagnostic tool -- 2.1 Comparing Old Frisian and Old English -- 2.2 Mechanisms of language change in contact and inheritance scenarios -- 2.3 Additional complications for related languages -- 2.4 Demystifying drift -- 2.5 Grammaticalization as a diagnostic tool -- 3. Test case 1: aga(n) -- 3.1 The grammaticalization of OE agan -- 3.2 Semantic layering: Intermediate stages and a semantic GSG -- 3.3 Another marker of intermediate stages: to -- 3.4 Infinitive inflections in aga's complement -- 4. Test case 2: The participle-based complement -- 4.1 The participle-as-verb-complement: A potential GSG -- 4.2 Erosion in Old Frisian infinitive and participle endings -- 4.3 The distribution of Old Frisian infinitives -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Old English wolde and sceolde: A semantic and syntactic analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical considerations: Modality and grammaticalization -- 3. Wolde and sceolde in Old English: Analysis of the data -- 4. Discussion of the results -- 4.1 wolde -- 4.2 sceolde -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- A corpus-based study on the development of dare in Middle English and Early Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ancestors of the modal verbs and the status of dare, tharf and need in OE -- 2.1 Morphological features -- 2.2 Syntactic features -- 2.3 Semantics -- 3. Data and methodology -- 4. Blurred categorisation -- 5. Conclusions -- Primary sources -- References -- Counterfactuality and aktionsart: Predictors for BE vs. HAVE + past participle in Middle English -- 1. Development of periphrases with BE/HAVE + past participle in English -- 2. BE/HAVE + past participle with mutative intransitives in middle English - a case of auxiliary selection in the perfect? -- 3. Data and classification -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 General results (N = 257).

4.2 Controlling for the "counterfactual effect" -- 4.3 Controlling for counterfactuality and aktionsart (N = 97) -- 4.4 Mixed-effects logistic regression analysis -- 5. Implications for different accounts of the BE/HAVE-periphrases -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Conservatism or the influence of the semantics of motion situation in the choice of perfect auxiliaries in Jane Austen's letters and novels -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Previous studies -- 1.2 The present study -- 1.3 Basic motion situation -- 1.4 Hypotheses -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Motion situations in Jane Austen's letters -- 3.2 Motion situations in Jane Austen's novels -- 4. Letters versus novels -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Signs of grammaticalization: Tracking the get-passive through COHA -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Aim and scope -- 1.2 Grammaticalization and the get-passive -- 1.3 Parameters investigated in the present study -- 2. Material and methods -- 2.1 COHA -- 2.2 Data selection and retrieval -- 2.3 Classification of passives in the data sets -- 3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 Diachronic frequency of central and semi-passives in COHA -- 3.2 Situation type -- 3.3 Subject type -- 3.4 Frequent past participles in get- and be-passives -- 4. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Appendix -- From time-before-place to place-before-time in the history of English: A corpus-based analysis of adverbial clusters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Factors that motivate the order of adverbials in clusters - previous research and annotation of the data -- 3. Data and methodology -- 4. Results of the analyses -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Complements and their proximity to the lexical verb -- 5.2 Weight, realization form and the given-before-new principle -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.

Variation and change at the interface of syntax and semantics: Concessive clauses in American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background and previous research -- 2.1 Three semantic types of concessives -- 2.2 'Contrastive sequencing' -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Semantics -- 4.2 Complement-internal syntax -- 4.3 Complement length -- 4.4 Multifactorial analysis of contrastive sequencing -- 5. Discussion, conclusion and outlook -- References -- Appendix -- Further explorations in the grammar of intensifier marking in Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Past and present participles -- 3. Predicative and attributive adjectives -- 4. Two kinds of adverbs -- 5. Prepositional phrases and NPs -- 6. Manner adverbs and adjectives -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Electronic sources -- The rivalry between far from being + predicative item and its counterpart omitting the copula in Modern English -- 1. Setting the scene -- 2. Historical developments -- 2.1 Clausal type a involving adjectives in the narrative database and the OED -- 2.2 Other environments -- 3. Complexity constraints -- 3.1 Cognitive accessibility -- 3.2 The relevance of morphologically-based categories -- 3.3 Syntactic constraints in the language of present-day British newspapers -- 4. Comparing British and American English -- 4.1 Historical contrasts: The lag and overtake scenario -- 4.2 Some remaining contrasts: The present-day situation as reflected in large collections of British and American newspapers -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Electronic corpora -- Index.

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