In:English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006
Edited by Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 295] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 9 July 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.295.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part I. Old and Middle English1
The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English
The Old English copula weorðan and its replacement in Middle English
Verb types and word order in Old and Middle English non-coordinate and coordinate clauses
From locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive and 'PROG imperfective drift'
Gender assignment in Old English
On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all
On the Post-Finite Misagreement phenomenon in Late Middle English
Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English
Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates
Part II. Early and Late Modern English181
Adverb-marking patterns in Earlier Modern English coordinate constructions
'Tis he, 'tis she, 'tis me, 'tis – I don't know who … cleft and identificational constructions in 16th to 18th century English plays
Emotion verbs with to-infinitive complements: From specific to general predication
Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English
Index of subjects & terms
