Structure

Continuity versus discontinuity

Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English

Cynthia Allen

On the history of relative that

Aimo Seppanen

The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs

Nikolas Gisborne

On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English

Kristin Killie

The indefinite pronoun man: ``nominal'' or ``pronominal''?

Linda van Bergen

Form and function

Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English

Rodrigo Perez Lorido

The position of the adjective in Old English

Olga Fischer

On the history of the s-genitive

Anette Rosenbach

Dieter Stein

Letizia Vezzosi

The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English

Elena Seoane Posse

Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation

Carita Paradis

Text types

Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change

Wim van der Wurff

The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century

Erik Smitterberg

The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts

Jonathan Culpeper

Merja Kyto

Sociolinguistics and dialectology

Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period

Terttu Nevalainen

The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or ``Howe the Scots will declare themselv's''

Arja Nurmi

Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century

Lilo Moessner

Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots

Anneli Meurman-Solin

Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English

Markku Filppula

Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography

Merja Black

Phonology

Happy-tensing: A recent innovation?

Joan Beal

Syllable Onset in the history of English

Donka Minkova

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Subject index