Table of contents
Foreword
vii
IntroductionExploring English historical syntax
1
Chapter 1.“Permissive” subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English
23
Chapter 2.Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale’s new testament
51
Chapter 3.On the differential evolution of simple and complex object construction in English
77
Chapter 4.Finite causative complements in Middle English
105
Chapter 5.Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English
139
Chapter 6.Semantic and lexical shifts with the “into-causative” construction in American English
159
Chapter 7.Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based study
179
Chapter 8.Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax
203
Chapter 9.Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots
235
Chapter 10.A study of Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation
259
Chapter 11.Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That’s the bottom line is (that) in American English
283
Index
307
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