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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
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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
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Cycles in Language Change
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This volume explores multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change, including the diachrony of negation, the internal structure of wh-words, and changes in argu
Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar
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This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Roman