English Historical Syntax and Morphology

Abstract

1. Addresses 2. Acknowledgements 3. Introduction (by Fanego, Teresa) 4. Two types of passivization of 'V+NP+P' constructions in relation to idiomatization (by Akimoto, Minoji) 5. On the development of a friend of mine (by Allen, Cynthia L.) 6. Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? (by Biber, Douglas) 7. Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered: On the late use of temporal adverbs (by Brinton, Laurel J.) 8. The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English: A historical sketch (by Kastovsky, Dieter) 9. From gold-gifa to chimney sweep?: Morphological (un)markedness of Modern English agent nouns in a diachronic perspective (by Kornexl, Lucia) 10. A path to volitional modality (by Krug, Manfred G.) 11. Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use -wise?: Domain adverbials and the history of English -wise (by Lenker, Ursula) 12. The loss of the indefinite pronoun man: Syntactic change and information structure (by Los, Bettelou) 13. The progressive in Older Scots (by Meurman-Solin, Anneli) 14. Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspective (by Mohlig, Ruth) 15. Morphology recycled: The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation at work in Early and Late Modern English grammatical variation (by Schluter, Julia) 16. Name index 17. Subject index