Introduction
Bibliography of Leon Kellner’s writings
Should
On the typological status of Old English
What positions fit in?
Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English
Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry
The rise of the passive infinitive in English
Question-answer sequences in Old English
Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse
Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English
Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?
Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach
Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose
Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis
The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases
Semantic aspects of syntactic change
Subordination and word order change in the history of English
Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English
Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English
On the stylistic basis of syntactic change
Index of technical terms and topics
Index of names
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