Chapter
2.2 Collocations (initial position) vs. medial position of adverbial connectors
2.3 Placement of adverbial connectors in the history of English
3. Medial placement of adverbials
3.2 Different placement options: Contemporary accounts
4. Information structure and adverbial positions
4.2 Adverbial placement and information structure: Initial position of adverbials
4.3 Adverbial placement and information structure: Medial placement of adverbials
Positions (adapted from Greenbaum 1969, 78)
The order of adverbials of time and place
in Old English
3. Monofactorial analysis
3.1 order based on semantics and number of elements in the cluster
3.2 clause pattern and verb-final versus verb-non-final
3.4 position of the cluster in the clause and position of the cluster regarding the lexical verb
3.5 complexity and weight
3.8 occurrence of other adverbials of time and place in the same clause and specific adverbials
3.9 Language external factors: genre, Latin translation and Old English period
3.10 Summary of the monofactorial analysis
4. The multifactorial analysis
The demise of a preterite-present verb
Gradience in an abrupt change
2. The effect of noun versus noun + verb frequency on diatonic pairs
Vowels before /r/ in the history of English
2.1 The BIRD-TERM-NURSE merger
2.2 Pre-rhotic loss of vowel distinctions
2.3 The situation after the loss of rhoticity
3. Further developments with pre-rhotic vowels
3.4 Other mergers with central vowels
Part II.
Language variation
“Pained the eye and stunned the ear”
2. Corpus-linguistic studies of the progressive passive
3. Comments on the progressive passive in the CNG
3.2 Overview of comments on the progressive passive
Watching as-clauses in Late Modern English
2. Dickens vs. J.K. Rowling
3. The onomasiological approach used in COHA
4. Hypotactic integration and embedding across time
Colloquialization and “decolloquialization”
5. Analysis and discussion
5.1.1 Genre characteristics
5.1.2 Phrasal verbs in medicine and science
5.2.1 Genre characteristics
5.2.2 Phrasal verbs in sermons
Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750–1835)
2. The Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor Corpus (LALP), England, c. 1750–1835
3. Spelling acquisition and fossilization in LALP
4. Developing genre literacies
4.1 Local and translocal scales
4.2 Adapting to the new linguistic marketplace
New-dialect formation in medieval Ireland
2. Medieval Ireland from 1169–1534
3. Theories on the development of new varieties of English
4. Methodology and sources
4.1 Irish English: The Kildare Poems (ca. 1330)
4.2 English English sources
5. New-dialect formation in medieval Irish English: Evidence of pre-modal verbs
Tracing uses of will and would in Late Modern British and Irish English
2. Classifications of will and would
4. Would and will in Irish and British English
4.1 Would and will in contemporary Irish and British English
4.2 Will and would in the Late Modern Irish and British English corpus material
4.3 Would in the Late Modern English corpus
4.4 Comparison of will and would in the Late Modern English corpus data
Part III.
Variation and change in contact situations
The subjunctive mood in Philippine English
2. The diachronic study of PhilE
4. Historical and regional variation in the subjunctive
5. Results and discussion: The mandative construction
5.1 The syntactic variants
5.2 The mandative subjunctive versus should-periphrasis
5.3 Suasive expressions and lexical conditioning
5.4 The mandative subjunctive and formality
5.4.1 The mandative subjunctive and text types
5.4.2 The mandative subjunctive and active vs passive voice
6. Results and discussion: The were-subjunctive in hypothetical clauses
6.1 Subjunctive were versus indicative was
6.2 Would in counterfactual subordinate clauses
6.3 Were-subjunctives and formality
Revisiting a millennium of migrations
3. Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
4. Domination and decimation: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
or
: A dilemma of the Middle English scribal practice
2. Selection of test items and texts