The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Structure 1(258) Continuity versus discontinuity 1(2) Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English 3(24) Cynthia Allen On the history of relative that 27(26) Aimo Seppanen The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs 53(24) Nikolas Gisborne On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English 77(26) Kristin Killie The indefinite pronoun man: ``nominal or ``pronominal? 103(22) Linda van Bergen Form and function 123(2) Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English 125(28) Rodrigo Perez Lorido The position of the adjective in Old English 153(30) Olga Fischer On the history of the s-genitive 183(28) Anette Rosenbach Dieter Stein Letizia Vezzosi The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English 211(22) Elena Seoane Posse Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation 233(26) Carita Paradis Text types 259(68) Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change 261(22) Wim van der Wurff The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century 283(16) Erik Smitterberg The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts 299(28) Jonathan Culpeper Merja Kyto Sociolinguistics and dialectology 327(154) Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period 329(44) Terttu Nevalainen The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or ``Howe the Scots will declare themselvs 373(22) Arja Nurmi Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century 395(22) Lilo Moessner Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots 417(22) Anneli Meurman-Solin Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English 439(16) Markku Filppula Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography 455(26) Merja Black Phonology 481(60) Happy-tensing: A recent innovation? 483(16) Joan Beal Syllable Onset in the history of English 499(42) Donka Minkova Name index 541(10) Subject index 551
Monica Heller is Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.
