This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures… read more
This study investigates the question whether English has a grammaticalized or non-grammaticalized pseudo-coordination (PC) structure with the postural verb sit. The point of departure of this study is Koops’s (2004) observation that sit and V in PDE is a nascent grammatical structure which can… read more
A frequent result produced by a search of the digital corpora of Middle English (henceforth ME) for instances of reduced th’ is a nominal involving the pronouns one or other with initial th
- or t- attached. In this study I argue that two different mechanisms, that is reduction of the… read more
As Hoye (1997) points out, harmonic combinations of modal verbs and modal adverbs are not uncommon in Present-Day English. The present paper explores semantic and syntactic aspects of one of such combinations, namely mæg eaþe ‘may easily’, from a diachronic perspective. The collocation is attested… read more
