Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Kevin McCafferty, Kari E. Haugland and Kristian A. Rusten Preface: Charms of grammar/Source of all glamour -- Part one Existential there and other expletives -- Kari E. Haugland Pa rinde hit & pær comun f lod & bleowun windas: On expletives and word order in Old English -- Gard B. Jenset In search of the S (curve) in there -- María José López-Couso and Susana Formoso-Rodríguez There follows + that-clause: A case of syntactic blend? -- Part two Adverbials -- Kristin Killie The development of colour adverbs in Norwegian and English: Similar paths, different paths -- Toril Swan Hopefully: The evolution of a sentence adverbial -- Part Three Grammar -- Gisle Andersen The double copula revisited -- Bjørg Bækken The noun phrase as a style marker in seventeenth-century English -- Dagmar Haumann On the ascent and decline of the passive tough-infinitive -- Kevin McCafferty I think that I will be after making love to one of them: A revised account of Irish English be after V-ing and its Irish source -- Ana Elina Martínez-Insua Language, medicine and choice: A Systemic-Functional study of Early Modern English medical writing -- Kristian A. Rusten Null referential subjects from Old to Early Modern English -- Part Four Information structure and pragmatics -- Kristin Bech Non-specificity and genericity in information structure annotation -- Øystein Heggelund Information structure as an independent word ordering factor in Old and Middle English -- Part Five Discourse -- Sarah Hoem Iversen Do you understand this, my little pupil?: Children's dictionaries, pedagogy and constructions of childhood in the nineteenth century -- Merja Stenroos Fugitive voices: Personal involvement in Middle English letters of defence -- Anna-Brita Stenström The pragmatic marker come on in teenage talk.

Leiv Egil Breivik: A bibliography -- Notes on contributors -- Index.