This study takes up the challenge posed by the reanalysis of Verb-Object order as the basic one in the history of English; the question, which has been debated for over thirty years, is tackled here by combining a qualitative and quantitative investi...Daugiau...
Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "e;diffusion"e;. This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period...Daugiau...
