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In this article, it will be argued that verb movement in infiniti-val clauses is attested throughout the Middle English (henceforth, MidE) period. This movement is presumably necessitated by the requi...
This paper presents a grammatical and quantitative description of verb-object word order in Early Middle English. It is a large-scale revision and amplification of Kroch and Taylor's 1994 paper on the...
Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact
English Dialect Variation Language Contact
2015/3/3
Our goal in this paper is to show that the northern and southern dialects of Middle English differ significantly in their verb-movement syntax. In particular, we will give evidence that these dialects...
The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A Case Study in Language Contact and Language Change
Language Contact and Language Change English Verb-Second Constraint
2015/3/3
As has long been known, the northern and southern dialects of Middle English differed considerably in their phonology, morphology and lexicon. Many of these differences have been traced to the linguis...