This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of the development of dative external possessors in Old and Early Middle English. It draws on empi

This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of dative external possessors in Old and Early Middle English and their diachronic development. Mo

This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus ling

The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle

This volume explores multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change, including the diachrony of negation, the internal structure of wh-words, and changes in argu