A Historical Syntax of English

Explores the many factors that influenced syntactic change in English GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748641437','ISBN:9780748641444']); Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It does not assume any knowledge of Old or Middle English or of formal syntax, although students should be familiar with traditional syntactic concepts such as verbs and nouns, subjects and objects, and linguistic concepts