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English Historical Linguistics 2006 volume I AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Lyle Campbell (Salt Lake City) Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Elly van Gelderen (Tempe, Ariz.) Brian D. Joseph (Columbus, Ohio) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Martin Maiden (Oxford) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.) Volume 295 Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.) English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006 English Historical Linguistics 2006 Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006 Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Edited by Maurizio Gotti Marina Dossena Richard Dury University of Bergamo JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 4- The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (14th : 2006 : Bergamo University) English historical linguistics 2006 : selected papers from the fourteenth international conference on English historical linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 295) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses. 2. English language--History--Congresses. I. Gotti, Maurizio. II. Dossena, Marina, 1961- III. Dury, Richard. IV. Title. V. Series. PE1075.I57 2008 425--dc22 2008002770 ISBN 978 90 272 4810 7 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2008 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA Table of contents Foreword Introduction Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury vii ix Part I. Old and Middle English 1 The balance between syntax and discourse in Old English Ans van Kemenade, Tanja Milicev & R. Harald Baayen 3 e Old English copula weorðan and its replacement Th in Middle English Peter Petré & Hubert Cuyckens 23 erb types and word order in Old and Middle English V non-coordinate and coordinate clauses Kristin Bech 49 rom locative to durative to focalized? The English progressive F and ‘PROG imperfective drift’ Kristin Killie 69 Gender assignment in Old English Letizia Vezzosi On the position of the OE quantifier eall and PDE all Tomohiro Yanagi n the post-finite misagreement phenomenon O in Late Middle English Richard Ingham & Kleanthes K. Grohmann 89 109 125 Syntactic dialectal variation in Middle English Cristina Suárez-Gómez 141 Particles as grammaticalized complex predicates Bettelou Los 157 Table of contents Part II. Early and Late Modern English 181 dverb-marking patterns in Earlier Modern English A coordinate constructions Aman