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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• PART I: GROUNDWORK
• Overview
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Data collection
• 1.2 Importance of context
• 1.3 Background knowledge
• 1.4 Sources of information
• 2 Background
• 2.1 Prehistory
• 2.2 Periods of English
• 2.3 A sketch of Old English
• 2.4 A sketch of Middle English
• 2.5 A sketch of Modern English
• 2.6 Further reading
• 3 Nominal morphology
• 3.1 Old English
• 3.2 Middle English
• 3.3 Modern English
• 3.4 Question for further research
• PART II: WORD ORDER
• Overview
• 4 Word order
• 4.1 Introductory remarks
• 4.2 The data
• 4.3 Descriptions and explanations
• 4.4 Synchronic accounts in non-generative linguistics
• 4.5 Synchronic accounts within generative linguistics
• 4.6 Diachronic, non-generative explanations
• 4.7 Diachronic accounts within generative linguistics
• 4.8 Ramifications
• 4.9 Questions for discussion or further research
• PART III: SUBJECT AND VERB PHRASE
• Overview
• 5 Impersonals
• 5.1 The problem
• 5.2 The data
• 5.3 Explanations
• 5.4 Explanations involving reanalysis
• 5.5 An explanation without reanalysis
• 5.6 Explanations involving semantics-based syntax
• 5.7 Other syntactic approaches
• 5.8 Mainly descriptive accounts
• 5.9 Dummy it
• 5.10 Questions for discussion or further research
• 6 Dative Movement and the indirect passive
• 6.1 The problem
• 6.2 The data
• 6.3 Explanations in non-generative linguistics
• 6.4 Questions for discussion or further research
• 7 The prepositional passive
• 7.1 The problem
• 7.2 The data
• 7.3 Explanations in non-generative linguistics
• 7.4 Explanations in generative linguistics
• 7.5 The complex prepositional passive
• 7.6 Indirect and prepositional passives
• 7.7 Questions for discussion or further research
• PART IV: COMPLEX COMPLEMENTATION
• Overview
• 8 VOSI and V+I (Control verbs)
• 8.1 The problem
• 8.2 VOSI
• 8.3 V+I
• 8.4 The data
• 8.5 Explanations
• 8.6 Philological and semantics-based accounts
• 8.7 Accounts in generative syntax
• 8.8 Text-based, structural accounts
• 8.9 Infinitive ± to
• 8.10 Questions for discussion or further research
• 9 Subject raising
• 9.1 The problem
• 9.2 Raising
• 9.3 The data
• 9.4 Explanations
• 9.5 Questions for discussion or further research
• PART V: AUXILIARIES
• Overview
• 10 Origins of periphrastic DO
• 10.1 The problem
• 10.2 The data
• 10.3 Explanations in non-generative linguistics
• 10.4 Explanations in generative linguistics
• 10.5 Questions for discussion or further research
• 11 Modals and related auxiliaries
• 11.1 The problem
• 11.2 Modals in Present-day English
• 11.3 The data
• 11.4 Explanations
• 11.5 Questions for discussion or further research
• 12 Perfect
• 12.1 The problem
• 12.2 The HAVE perfect
• 12.3 Other HAVE + past participle constructions
• 12.4 The BE perfect
• 12.5 Data on the HAVE perfect
• 12.6 Data on the BE perfect
• 12.7 Explanations
• 12.8 Questions for discussion or further research
• 13 Progressive
• 13.1 The problem
• 13.2 Progressives versus related constructions
• 13.3 The data
• 13.4 Explanations of the origins of the OE progressive
• 13.5 Explanations for the ME and ModE progressive
• 13.6 Explanations for the ‘passival’ progressive
• 13.7 Questions for discussion or further research
• 14 Passive
• 14.1 The problem
• 14.2 The data
• 14.3 Explanations
• 14.4 Questions for discussion or further research
• 15 Multiple auxiliaries, regulation of DO
• 15.1 The problems
• 15.2 The data
• 15.3 Explanations of history of auxiliary category
• 15.4 Explanations of regulation of DO
• 15.5 Questions for discussion or further research
• 15.6 Envoi
• PART VI: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES
• Glossary of technical terms
• Secondary sources (references) (indexed)
• Primary sources (texts) (indexed)
• Index of verbs in examples
• General index