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248 The syntax of early EnglishAppendix A (all appendices are taken from Fischer 1992b)subjectconstr.VinfNPNPVinfob-pass.Verbfor ject Vfor inf(cat. in cor- full in- ␀ to to con- NP wh ␀ to to pure subj.Visser) pus verb an. an. inf inf inf ing str. inf cl. rest pron topic inf inf inf inf constr.bid 2 Br 36 24 23 1 2 2 x 7 1IVVIII CA 60 67 47 14 6 11 4 6 1 9 1 1PL 5 24 23 1MA 2 21 18 3do Br 376 7 xII CA 531 33 5 13 12 13 19 6 2 5 2 4 x 1PL 829 20 14 5 1 56 5 1 48 2 x 10MA 4 1446 7 1 6 6 3 6 xcause CA 13 2 x 1 1 x 1II PL 8 58 3 58 3 1 1 x 16MA 16 35 x 1 3haten Br 11 32 x 11 4 6 1 xVIII CA 1 all other instances of ‘hoten’ in CA involve the meaning ‘to be called’let Br 9 33 15 x 96 23 4 50 19 x 9 1IIV CA 4 20 24 37 60 1 32 7 2 16 1 6 x 2 6PL 11 213 13 225 1 9 9 x 42MA 23 216 13 x 149 25 119 5 x 26 19make Br 122II CA 503 93 13 62 27 17 3 3 x 1 2PL 574 36 10 26 3MA 906 119 3 23 96 3 13 1 12 5 8 19suffer CA 42 13 2 7 7 1 1V PL — 13 1 x 2MA 55 76 x 2 9hear Br 71 1 x 12 2 6 3 1 xI CA 286 5 29 3 29 1 2 31 3 9 2 7 10 xPL 41 5 6 x 26 1 18 1 6 xMA 158 5 65 4 x 35 27 8 xsee Br 49 9 (1) x 1? xI CA 390 46 29 67 1? 16 4 x 5PL 126 2 1 1 2MA 709 175 23 171 4 23 4Notes to Appendix A:1This category contains the following subtypes indicated by square brackets:[a] equivocal between a subject and object construction, i.e., the verb may be transitive as well as intransitive;[b] equivocal between an imperative and a bare-infinitive subject construction; [c] hybrid of the type: she hath doslain him, I have herd you seid with a past participle instead of the expected infinitive; [d] equivocal betweenperiphrastic and emphatic do and in some cases also causative do (if the latter, the construction would be an objectconstruction); [e] equivocal between a bare-infinitive subject construction and a (that)-clause; [f] hybrid of the type:he now late toke Roger Cherche with a past tense form instead of the expected infinitive; [g] equivocal between abare-infinitive object construction and a construction with a past participle.