In:Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe
[Studies in Language Companion Series 198] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 13 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.198.toc
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Table of contents
Forewordvii
IntroductionExploring English historical syntax1
Hubert Cuyckens
Chapter 1.“Permissive” subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English23
Bettelou Los
Chapter 2.Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale’s new testament51
Nikolaos Lavidas
Chapter 3.On the differential evolution of simple and complex object construction in English77
Günter Rohdenburg
Chapter 4.Finite causative complements in Middle English105
Brian Lowrey
Chapter 5.Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English139
Yoko Yyeiri
Chapter 6.Semantic and lexical shifts with the “into-causative” construction in American English159
Mark Davies
Jong-Bok Kim
Chapter 7.Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based study179
Carla Bouzada-Jabois
Chapter 8.Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax203
David Tizón-Couto
Chapter 9.Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots235
Christine Elsweiler
Chapter 10.A study of Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation259
Kousuke Kaita
Chapter 11.Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That’s the bottom line is (that) in American English283
Reijirou Shibasaki
Index307
