PAPERS from the 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Content -- PREFACE -- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS -- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4th ICEH -- 'I DENY THAT I'M INCAPABLE OF NOT WORKING ALL NIGHT': DIVERGENCE OF NEGATIVE STRUCTURES IN BRITISH AND INDIAN ENGLISH -- 1.0. Introduction. -- 1.1. British and Indian English. -- 2.0. Negation in English. -- 3.0. Eliciting negatives. -- 3.1. Subjects. -- 3.2. Procedure. -- 3.3. Data and analysis. -- 3.4. Results. -- 3.4.1. Explicit negation in subordinate clauses -- 3.5. Implicational scaling. -- 4.0. Discussion. -- 5.0. Summary and conclusion. -- REFERENCES -- RELATIVE WHICH IN LATE 18TH CENTURY USAGE: THE CLIFT FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX 2 -- REFERENCES -- 'LENGTHENING OF a IN TYNESIDE ENGLISH -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE ORIGINS OF PERIPHRASTIC DO: ELLEGÅRD AND VISSER RECONSIDERED -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. Ellegård's account. -- 2. Visser's account. -- 3. Negatives and non-declaratives. -- 4. A new(ish) proposal. -- 5. Conclusions. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: EVIDENCE FROM BRITISH ENGLISH DIALECTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- OLD ENGLISH INFINITIVAL COMPLEMENTS AND WEST-GERMANIC V-RAISING -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. Some Old English data. -- 2. Verb Raising. -- 2.1. Negation. -- 2.2. Clitic placement. -- 2.3. Word order variations. -- 3. Old English infinitivals as V-raising structures. -- 3.1. Clitic placement. -- 3.2. Extraposition. -- 3.3. Preposition stranding. -- 4. Conclusions. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE SIMPLIFICATION OF THE OLD ENGLISH STRONG NOMINAL PARADIGMS -- 0. Introduction. -- 2. The Data as Represented in Old English Handbooks. -- 3. The Data Represented Synchvonically. -- 4. The Relationship between Historical and Synchronic Paradigms.

4.1 Reanalysis of Stems without Surface Allomorphy. -- 4.1.1 Giest, Cween and Gecynd. -- 4.1.2 Feld, Duru and Hand. -- 4.2 Reanalysis of Sterns with Surface Allomorphy. -- 4.2.1 Ende and Wiite. -- 4.2.2 Cynn and Bridd. -- 4.2.3 Excursus on Freme. -- 4.2.4 Gierd and Synn. -- 4.2.5 Wine and Clyne. -- 4.2.6. Bearu and Searu. -- 5. Some Problematic Cases. -- 5.1 Sunu. -- 5.2 Dene. -- 5.3 Here. -- 5.4 Sinu. -- 6. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- VERB AND PARTICLE COMBINATIONS IN OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH -- 0. Introduction. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE IMPERSONAL VERB IN CONTEXT: OLD ENGLISH -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE SOUTH AFRICAN CHAIN SHIFT: ORDER OUT OF CHAOS? -- 1. The Problem. -- 2. The 'Atomistic' Alternative. -- 3. The Chain Shift Alternative : Preliminaries. -- 4. Convergence and Stabilization : The Testimony of Jeremiah Goldswain. -- 5. The status of [ї]. -- 6. Retrospect : The State of the Shift. -- NOTES -- APPENDIX A: THE WORD-LIST -- APPENDIX B: EXTRACTS FROM GOLDSWAIN'S Chronicle -- REFERENCES -- OF RHYME AND REASON: SOME FOOT-GOVERNED QUANTITY CHANGES IN ENGLISH -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LEXICAL VARIATIONOF EModE EXCLUSIVE ADVERBS: STYLE SWITCHING OR A CHANGE IN PROGRESS? -- 0. Introduction. -- 2. Quantitative analysis. -- 3. Spoken and written language. -- 4. Involvement index. -- 5. Discussion. -- 6. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- REMARKS ON COMPLEMENTATION IN OLD ENGLISH -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- THE INTERPRETATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORM ALTERNATIONS CONDITIONED ACROSS WORD BOUNDARIES.THE CASE OF WIFE'S, WIVES, AND WIVES ' -- REFERENCES -- A NOTE ON THE VOICING OF INITIAL FRICATIVES IN MIDDLE ENGLISH -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- EXPRESSION OF EXCLUSIVENESS IN OLD ENGLISH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ADVERB ONLY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE GREAT SCANDINAVIAN BELT -- REFERENCES.

DISCOURSE MARKERS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH -- NOTES -- TEXTS -- REFERENCES -- ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS OF THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PHENOMENON OF HIGH VOWEL LOWERING WHEN LENGTHENED IN THE OPEN SYLLABLE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PRELIMINARIES TO THE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF OLD ENGLISH GLOSSES AND GLOSSARIES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE ROLE OF INFL IN WORD ORDER CHANGE -- 1.0 Theoretical background. -- 1.1 Movement rules. -- 1.2 Phrase Structure Rules. -- 1.3 The role of INFL. -- 2.0 Word order changes. -- 3.0 Predictions. -- 4.0 Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.