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viContents5 The loss of object–verb word order 1385.1 Introduction 1385.2 Old English:the basic facts 1395.3 Old English word order: OV or VO? 1455.4 Middle English:the basic facts 1605.5 Analysing the Middle English word order patterns 1645.6 The diachrony of OV and VO order 1726 Verb–particles in Old and Middle English 1806.1 Introduction 1806.2 Particles: some general considerations 1816.3 Particles in Old English 1856.4 Position of the particle marks the position of the verb beforemovement 1906.5 The universal base hypothesis 1976.6 Some remaining problems: particles separated from theverb (part ...V) 1996.7 Particles in Middle English 2016.8 Conclusion 2107 Changes in infinitival constructions 2117.1 Introduction 2117.2 New infinitival constructions: constructions containing a lexicalsubject 2147.3 Borrowing and internal factors: the Latin AcI in the history ofDutch 241Appendices 2488 The history of the ‘easy-to-please’ construction 2568.1 Introduction 2568.2 Theoretical issues in the analysis of ‘easy-to-please’ 2578.3 Data and analysis for Old English 2618.4 Data and analysis for Middle English 2718.5 Explaining the changes in Middle English 2779 Grammaticalization and grammar change 2849.1 Introduction 2849.2 Grammaticalization theory 2869.3 Two case studies 293Appendix 320References 322Index 336