English Historical Syntax

Preface

Part I: Groundwork
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Nominal Morphology

Part II: Word Order
4. Word Order

Part III: Subject and Verb Phrase
5. Impersonals
6. Dative Movement and the Indirect Passive

Part IV: Complex Complementation
8. VOSI and V+I (control verbs)
9. Subject raising

Part V: Auxiliaries
10. Origins of Periphrastic DO
11. Modals and Related Auxiliaries
12. Perfect
13. Progressive
14. Passive
15. Multiple auxiliaries, regulation of DO

Part VI: Bibliography and Indexes
Abbreviations
16. Glossary of technical terms
17. Secondary sources
18. Primary sources
19. Index of verbs in examples