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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

Maria Jose Lopez-Couso , Bettelou Los , Anneli Meurman-Solin

The Handbook of the History of English

Bettelou Los , Ans Van Kemenade

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing...

The Rise of the To-Infinitive

Bettelou Los

This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to other nonfinite...