Studies in English Language - Series page

pp ii-iv

Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Tables

pp xi-xii

Contributors

pp xiii-xviii

Acknowledgements

pp xix-xx

Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present

pp 1-22

Part I - Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change

pp 23-146

Chapter 1 - What Is Special about Pronouns?

pp 25-53

Chapter 2 - What For?

pp 54-80

Chapter 3 - Whatever Happened to Whatever?

pp 81-104

Chapter 4 - Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation

pp 105-129

Chapter 5 - The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric’s Grammar

pp 130-146

Part II - Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change

pp 147-250

Chapter 6 - How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or ‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’

pp 149-169

Chapter 7 - Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English

pp 170-189

Chapter 8 - That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause

pp 190-209

Chapter 9 - Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics

pp 210-233

Chapter 10 - The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus

pp 234-250

Part III - Comparative and Typological Approaches

pp 251-365

Chapter 11 - The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que

pp 253-282

Chapter 12 - Modelling Step Change: The History of Will-Verbs in Germanic

pp 283-314

Chapter 13 - Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English

pp 315-335

Chapter 14 - American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?

pp 336-365

References

pp 366-398

Index

pp 399-404