It is commonly held that Present-Day English they, their, them are not descended from Old
English but derive from the Old Norse third-person plural pronouns þeir, þeira, þeim. This …

Some particles were lost in the transition to Middle English, but then and now continued to
be attested in questions and imperatives, in the same clause-internal position as in OE …

In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of
phenomena known as' third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent …

This article presents a quantitative study of the referential status of PPs in clause-initial
position in the history of English. Earlier work (Los 2009; Dreschler 2015) proposed that …

This paper discusses a V3-pattern in Early Germanic that has so far not been considered
independently. In this construction, a clause-initial XP is followed by the adverbial element …

Stacked adjectives in earlier as well as modern German varieties show so-called parallel
inflection. This means that all adjectives must bear an inflectional ending. Inflecting only the …

We present a novel account of the development and loss of one type of V2 word order over
the Middle and early Modern English periods, based on a fine-grained corpus study which …

With the present work, I aim to investigate the syntax of Old English and Early Middle
English, in order to determine the factors that led to the grammaticalization of the VO word …

The proprial article (hann Jón 'he John') is attested across North Germanic and has attracted
recent interest for Icelandic in particular (Sigurðsson 2006; Wood 2009; Sigurðsson & Wood …

In this paper, I show how pragmatics and syntax are interconnected in Old English by
examining the left-dislocation system in Wulfstan's homilies. Syntactically, this article argues …