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Tables of Contents for The Syntax of Early English
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
 
List of editions used
x
 
Language change and grammar change
1
36
Introduction
1
1
Historical change, language acquisition and the Principles and Parameters model
2
17
Grammar change and language change
19
7
Methodology and the role of data
26
9
Overview of the book
35
2
An outline of Old English syntax
37
31
Introduction
37
1
Morphology and case assignment
37
9
Word order
46
7
Some clause types
53
2
Subordinate clauses
55
9
Preposition stranding
64
4
An outline of Middle English syntax
68
36
Introductory remarks
68
1
Morphology and case assignment
69
10
Word order
79
4
Clause types
83
5
Subordinate clauses
88
16
The Verb-Second constraint and its loss
104
34
Introduction
104
1
The facts
105
5
The position of the finite verb: Verb-Second?
110
19
Developments after the Old English period
129
9
The loss of object-verb word order
138
42
Introduction
138
1
Old English: the basic facts
139
6
Old English word order: OV or VO?
145
15
Middle English: the basic facts
160
4
Analysing the Middle English word order patterns
164
8
The diachrony of OV and VO order
172
8
Verb-particles in Old and Middle English
180
31
Introduction
180
1
Particles: some general considerations
181
4
Particles in Old English
185
5
Position of the particle marks the position of the verb before movement
190
7
The universal base hypothesis
197
2
Some remaining problems: particles separated from the verb (part...V)
199
2
Particles in Middle English
201
9
Conclusion
210
1
Changes in infinitival constructions
211
45
Introduction
211
3
New infinitival constructions: constructions containing a lexical subject
214
27
Borrowing and internal factors: the Latin AcI in the history of Dutch
241
15
Appendices
248
8
The history of the `easy-to-plase' construction
256
28
Introduction
256
1
Theoretical issues in the analysis of `easy-to-please'
257
4
Data and analysis for Old English
261
10
Data and analysis for Middle English
271
6
Explaining the changes in Middle English
277
7
Grammaticalization and grammar change
284
38
Introduction
284
2
Grammaticalization theory
286
7
Two case studies
293
29
Appendix
320
2
References
322
14
Index
336