The history of English verbal and nominal constructions

1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction: Capturing and explaining syntactic change in the history of English (by Lenker, Ursula) 3. part iVerbal constructions 4. Ponne hate we hine morgensteorra: On verb complementation in Old English (by Johannesson, Nils-Lennart) 5. Tracking and explaining variation and change in the grammar of American English: A case study, with evidence from the TIME Corpus (by Rudanko, Juhani) 6. Prevent and the battle of the -ing clauses: Semantic divergence? (by Sellgren, Elina) 7. Prescription or practice?: Be/have variation with past participles of mutative intransitive verbs in the letters of Joseph Priestley (by Straaijer, Robin) 8. On the idiomatization of give + O + constructions (by Akimoto, Minoji) 9. The clausal complementation of good in extraposition constructions: The emergence of partially filled constructions (by Van linden, An) 10. part iiModality and (marginal) modals 11. The 'fail to' construction in Late Modern and Present-Day English (by Egan, Thomas) 12. The interplay of modal verbs and adverbs: A history of maeg eape (by Nykiel, Jerzy) 13. Current change in the modal system of English: A case study of must, have to and have got to (by Close, Joanne) 14. part iiiDevelopments in the English noun phrase 15. Discontinuous quantificational structures in Old English (by Bartnik, Artur) 16. Genitive variation in letters, history writing and sermons in Late Middle and Early Modern English (by Juvonen, Teo) 17. part ivSyntactic variation and change through contact 18. On the use of beon and wesan in Old English (by Wischer, Ilse) 19. The reflexes of OE beon as a marker of futurity in early Middle English (by Laing, Margaret) 20. Stylistic fronting in the history of English (by Ohkado, Masayuki) 21. Subject and Word index