Historical English Syntax / / ed. by Dieter Kastovsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, John,; Breivik, Leiv Egil,; Colman, Fran,; Danchev, Andrei,; Diller, Hans-Jürgen,; Fischer, Olga,; Fries, Udo,; Jucker, Andreas H.,; Kastovsky, Dieter,; Kniezsa, Veronika,; Kytö, Merja,; Minkova, Donka,; Mukhin, Anatolij M.,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Rissanen, Matti,; Rydén, Mats,; Stein, Dieter,; Stockwell, Robert P.,; Swan, Toril,; Tottie, Gunnel,; Wright, Susan M.,; Yulikova, Natalya M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kastovsky, Dieter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)

Table of Contents

• i-vi
• Contents
• Introduction
• Bibliography of Leon Kellner’s writings
• Should
• On the typological status of Old English
• What positions fit in?
• Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English
• Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry
• The rise of the passive infinitive in English
• Question-answer sequences in Old English
• Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse
• Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English
• Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?
• Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach
• Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose
• Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis
• The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases
• Semantic aspects of syntactic change
• Subordination and word order change in the history of English
• Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English
• Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English
• On the stylistic basis of syntactic change
• Index of technical terms and topics
• Index of names
• 511-512