• ISBN13: 9780748641437
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Edinburgh UP
• Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: GBP 24.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 350 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Grammar & Punctuation

Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It discusses internal factors such as the loss of morphology and pressure from analogy. It also covers external factors such as the sociolinguistic impact of language and dialect contact.

Los, Bettelou: - Bettelou Los is Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1986 and has since held teaching and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit, the University of Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen and other colleges of high education. She participates in the research program The Diachrony of Complex Predicates in West Germanic, and has published several papers on diachronic syntax. Previous publications include The Handbook of the History of English, Blackwell, as co-editor (2006), and The Rise of the To-Infinitive, Oxford University Press (2005).