Readership: Students and scholars of Old and Middle English, diachronic syntax, language change, and the history of English.
Bettelou Los, Vrije University
"...clear and exhaustive...[a] valuable contribution." - English Language and Linguistics, Vol. 10/2
Part I: Introduction 1: Introduction Part II: The to-infinitive as GOAL 2: The Expression of Purpose in Old English 3: The to-infinitive as GOAL-argument Part III: The to-infinitive as THEME 4: Intention 5: Commanding and Permitting 6: Commissives Part IV: Syntactic Status 7: Introduction 8: The Changing Status of Infinitival to Part V: Changes in Middle English 9: The Rise of to-infinitival ECM 10: Innocent Bystander: The Loss of the Indefinite Pronoun man Part VI: Summary and Conclusions 11: Summary and Conclusions Appendix References Index
