Reading list:
- Denison, David (1998), ‘Syntax’. Ch. 3, pp. 92-329. In Suzanne Romaine (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language IV: 1776- 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 3, pp. 92-329.
- Denison, David (1999), ‘Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow: The Dance of Language Change’. In Ana B. López et al. 1999; pp. 51-64.
- Elsness, Johan (1994), ‘On the progression of the progressive in early Modern English’, ICAME Journal 18: 5-25.
- Elsness, Johan (1997), The perfect and the preterite in contemporary and earlier English. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Ch. 4, pp. 237-338, ‘The perfect and the preterite in the history of English’.
- Fischer, Olga and Wim van der Wurff (2006), ‘Syntax’. In Richard Hogg and David Denison (eds.), A history of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 3, pp. 109-198.
- Fries, Charles C. (1969), ‘On the Development of the Structural Use of Word-Order in Modern English’. In Roger Lass (ed.), Approaches to English Historical Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; pp. 303-310.
- García, Luisa G. (1999), ‘Tendencies in the Use of the Inflected Genitive and the of-Construction in Middle English’. In Ana B. López et al. 1999; pp. 65-73.
- Hundt, Marianne (2004), ‘Animacy, agentivity, and the spread of the progressive in Modern English’, English Language and Linguistics 8/1: 47-69.
- López, Ana B. et al. (eds.), (1999), ‘Woonderous ?nglissce’. SELIM Studies in Medieval English Language. Universidade de Vigo: Servicio de Publicacións
- McMahon, April M.S. (1994), Understanding Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 6, pp.138-173; Ch. 9, pp.225-252.
- Nurmi, Arja (1999), A Social History of Periphrastic DO. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique.
- Rissanen, Matti (1999), ‘Syntax’. In Roger Lass (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language III: 1476-1776. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 4, pp. 187-331.
- Strang, Barbara M.H. (1982), ‘Some aspects of the history of the BE+ING construction’. In John M. Anderson (ed.), Language form and linguistic variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; pp. 427-474.