English Historical Syntax and Morphology

1. Addresses; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction (by Fanego, Teresa); 4. Two types of passivization of 'V+NP+P' constructions in relation to idiomatization (by Akimoto, Minoji); 5. On the development of a friend of mine (by Allen, Cynthia L.); 6. Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? (by Biber, Douglas); 7. Grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered: On the late use of temporal adverbs (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 8. The derivation of ornative, locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English: A historical sketch (by Kastovsky, Dieter); 9. From gold-gifa to chimney sweep?: Morphological (un)markedness of Modern English agent nouns in a diachronic perspective (by Kornexl, Lucia); 10. A path to volitional modality (by Krug, Manfred G.); 11. Is it, stylewise or otherwise, wise to use -wise?: Domain adverbials and the history of English -wise (by Lenker, Ursula); 12. The loss of the indefinite pronoun man: Syntactic change and information structure (by Los, Bettelou); 13. The progressive in Older Scots (by Meurman-Solin, Anneli); 14. Detransitivization in the history of English from a semantic perspective (by Mohlig, Ruth); 15. Morphology recycled: The Principle of Rhythmic Alternation at work in Early and Late Modern English grammatical variation (by Schluter, Julia); 16. Name index; 17. Subject index