CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 Word Order -- 0.2 Functional Categories and Features -- 0.3 The Minimalist Framework: Chumsky (1992) -- 0.4 Outline -- 1. The Functional Category T in English -- 1.0 Outline -- 1.1 PS-rules -- 1.2 Splitting up the I-node -- 1.3 What occupies T in English -- 1.4 Evidence for TP -- 1.4.1 Right Node Raising and Coordination -- 1.4.2 Adjunction -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2. Languages without a special Node for Tense -- 2.0 Outline -- 2.1 PS rules for languages such as Dutch -- 2.1.1 Head-initial or head-final -- 2.1.2 The problem of Negation -- 2.2 What occupies T in Dutch, Swedish, German and Old English -- 2.2.1 Dutch -- 2.2.2 Swedish -- 2.2.3 German -- 2.2.4 Old English -- 2.3 Lack of evidence for TP and for V-to-T movement -- 2.3.1 Problems -- 2.3.2 V-to-T and mixed categories -- 2.3.3 Right Node Raising, VP-deletion and Coordination -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3. The Introduction of a Tense Node -- 3.0 Outline -- 3.1 The appearance of functional elements in T -- 3.2 The loss of V-2: tense from C to T -- 3.2.1 Verb-Second and its decline -- 3.2.2 Verb-movement and the loss of features -- 3.3 The optionality of that -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4. Tense in Non-Finite Clauses -- 4.0 Outline -- 4.1 To in Katerine, Hali Meidenhad and Wohunge: a prefix or a complementizer? -- 4.2 To in Caligula -- 4.3 Forto in Caligula and Otho -- 4.4 Verb-Raising -- 4.5 Later Middle English -- 4.6 The infinitival ending -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Appendix -- 5. Feature Selection -- 5.0 Outline -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Semantic and Syntactic Selection -- 5.1.2 Selection of categories or maximal projections does not suffice -- 5.2 Feature Selection -- 5.2.1 [+fut] complements -- 5.2.1.1 Tenseless complements -- 5.2.1.2 Selection of [+fut] features -- 5.2.1.3 Tense anchoring -- 5.2.1.4 Hornstein (1990).

5.2.2 Verbs with [+tense] and TP infinitivals -- 5.2.3 VP complements -- 5.3 Dutch -- 5.4 Old and early Middle English -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- 6. AGRsP and Agreement Features -- 6.0 Outline -- 6.1 Background -- 6.1.1 Agreement -- 6.1.2 VP Subjects -- 6.2 Modern English -- 6.2.1 English without AGRs -- 6.2.2 Which are the agreement features? -- 6.3 Dutch -- 6.3.1 Evidence against additional functional categories -- 6.3.2 Double object verbs -- 6.3.3 Agreement features -- 6.3.4 Nominative in Dutch -- 6.3.5 Subject adjunction to VP -- 6.4 Old English and Middle English -- 6.4.1 Nominative and features -- 6.4.2 Double Negatives and the Nominative -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7. Functional Categories between Neg and VP -- 7.0 Outline -- 7.1 AGRo in Modern English -- 7.2 AGRo in Dutch -- 7.3 The introduction of structural Case in Middle English: AGRo? -- 7.3.1 From inherent to structural Case -- 7.3.2 AGRo? -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8. Aspect -- 8.0 Outline -- 8.1 The data and an analysis for Modern English -- 8.2 Dutch -- 8.3 Older stages of English -- 8.4 Changes and conclusion -- 9. Conclusion -- 9.1 Synchronic Observations -- 9.2 Diachronic Observations -- Notes -- References -- Reference Index -- General Index.