The Editors: Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. Her areas of interest cover English historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, language variation and change, historical pragmatics, and manuscript studies. ohn Scahill holds a doctorate from the University of Sydney for research on Early Middle English manuscripts and literary history, and is a member of the Faculty of Letters at Keio University in Tokyo. Harumi Tanabe is Professor of English at Seikei University, Tokyo. Her main academic interests are English historical linguistics and Middle English manuscript studies.
Preface
p. 11
Introduction
p. 13
Syntax and Style
Sentence Length, Sentence Complexity and the Noun Phrase in 18th-Century News Publications
p. 21
Negative Concord and the Negative Cycle in the History of English
p. 35
The Rise of the Complementizer that in the History of English
p. 59
Negation in Fragments A, B and C of the Hunter Manuscript of The Romaunt of the Rose
p. 79
On Stylistic Fronting in Middle English Prose
p. 103
Syntactic Passive: Its Rise and Growth in the History of English
p. 117
Ordering Main and Modal Verbs in the Production of Old English Poetry Words and Semantics
p. 139
Translation Techniques in the Terminology of ÆlfricÆs Grammar: Semantic Loans, Loan Translations and Word-Formation
p. 163
Features of Spokenness in Joseph WrightÆs English Dialect Dictionary
p. 175
Semantic Shifts in the Development of Color Terms in English
p. 197
Uncovering of Rare or Unknown Usages: A History of seem Meaning æto pretendÆ
p. 217
Prodigal Early Middle English Orthographies: Minds and Manuscripts
p. 239
The Rivalry of give up and its Synonymous Verbs in Modern English Discourse and Pragmatics
p. 253
From Performative to Concessive Disjunct: I/you admit and admittedly
p. 279
On the Rise of but-concessive Constructions: From the Viewpoint of Grammaticalization
p. 303
On the History of unless
p. 327
On the Transition of Transitivity in English
p. 349
The Comment Clause in the Spectator
p. 375
A Bibliography of Professor Minoji Akimoto (compiled by Shihoko Yamamoto)
p. 401
Index
p. 415
Notes on Contributors
p. 417
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