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In:Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985
Edited by Roger Eaton, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 41] 1985
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1985
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
List of participantsxi
Proceedings of the 4th ICEHL1
‘I deny that I’m incapable of working all night’: Divergence of negative structures in British and Indian English3
Relative Which in late 18th-century usage: the Clift family correspondence15
Lengthening of a in Tyneside English31
The origins of periphrastic Do: Ellegård and Visser reconsidered45
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Synchronic variation and linguistic change: Evidence from british english dialects61
Old English infinitival complements and West-Germanic V-raising73
The simplification of the Old English strong nominal paradigms85
Verb and particle combinations in old and middle English109
The impersonal verb in context: old English123
The south African Chain-shift: order out of chaos?137
Of Rhyme and reason: some foot-governed quantity changes in English163
Lexical variation of early modern English exclusive adverbs: Style switching or a change in progress?179
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Some remarks on complementation in old English195
The interpretation and development of form alternations conditioned across word boundaries: The case of Wife’s, Wives and Wives’205
A note on the voicing of initial fricatives in middle English235
Expression of exclusiveness in old English and the development of the adverb only253
The great Scandinavian belt269
Discourse markers in early modern English283
Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable303
Preliminaries to the linguistic analysis of old Engllish glosses and glossaries319
The role of INFL in word order change331
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