TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,John AU - Breivik,Leiv Egil AU - Colman,Fran AU - Danchev,Andrei AU - Diller,Hans-Jürgen AU - Fischer,Olga AU - Fries,Udo AU - Jucker,Andreas H. AU - Kastovsky,Dieter AU - Kniezsa,Veronika AU - Kytö,Merja AU - Minkova,Donka AU - Mukhin,Anatolij M. AU - Nevalainen,Terttu AU - Rissanen,Matti AU - Rydén,Mats AU - Stein,Dieter AU - Stockwell,Robert P. AU - Swan,Toril AU - Tottie,Gunnel AU - Wright,Susan M. AU - Yulikova,Natalya M. TI - Historical English Syntax T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110124316 AV - PE1361 .H57 1991 U1 - 425 20 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - English language KW - Grammar, Historical KW - Congresses KW - Syntax KW - Englisch KW - Historische Syntax KW - Kongress KW - Liechtenstein ‹Niederösterreich, 1988› KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863314 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110863314 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110863314/original ER -