Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms

Contents: Minoji Akimoto: On the Decline of after and forth in Verb Phrases - Anita Auer: Precept and Practice: The Influence of Prescriptivism on the English Subjunctive - Joan C. Beal/Anthony P. Grant: «Make do and mend»: An Online Investigation into Processes of Neologisation and the Dearth of Borrowing in Newer English Wartime Vocabulary - Claudia Claridge: 'With the most superlative felicitee': Functions of the Superlative in 19th-Century English - Thomas Egan: Pronominal and Full Nominal Subjects in Expanding Constructions - Larisa Oldireva Gustafsson: Irregular Verbs in 17th- and 18th-Century English Grammars: A Maze of Classifications - Minna Palander-Collin/Minna Nevala: Reporting in 18th-Century Letters of Hester Piozzi - Günter Rohdenburg: The Role of Functional Constraints in the Evolution of the English Complementation System - Anni Sairio: Progressives in the Letters of Elizabeth Montagu and her Circle in 1738-1778 - Elena Seoane: Changing Styles: On the Recent Evolution of Scientific British and American English - Stefan Thim: Phrasal Verbs in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Combinations with back, down, forth, out, and up - Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: «Disrespectful and too familiar»? Abbreviations as an Index of Politeness in 18th-Century Letters.