The book is concerned with the interaction of syntax, information structure and prosody in the history of English, demonstrating this with a case study of objec

The use of object topicalization declined in Middle and Early Modern English because with the loss of V2, topicalization easily led to prosodically ill-formed s

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, a

This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics This monograph is the first comprehensive study of topicalization in Asian second-l