What makes a syntactic change stop? On the decline of periphrastic do in Early Modern English affirmative declarative sentences

In Early Modern English, from about 1500 onwards, the periphrastic do-construction developed in all types of sentences, including affirmative declarative sentences. However, in the latter this development came to a halt and the number of such constructions continually declined in the course of the 17th century. This paper pursues the question of what hidden linguistic factors might have promoted the change and why it finally failed to succeed. Therefore it examines the use of periphrastic do in affirmative declarative sentences in the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. In order to identify possible reasons for its decline, the study first discusses the origin of periphrastic do and then concentrates on the stylistic and functional variation that existed between the use of the innovative and the conservative construction. It will be shown what particular morphological, semantic and syntactic functions do could fulfill in such periphrases and why neither of these uses was conventionalized in the language

Markers of futurity in Old English and the grammaticalization of shall and will

This paper examines the use of potential source lexemes of future markers in Old English, such as willan, sculan, beon and weorþan. First their frequency is analysed in a selection of texts from the OE part of the Helsinki Corpus and compared to the frequency of their cognate forms in Old High German. This quantitative analysis is followed by an examination of the use of these verbs in their respective construction types. In this way it will be demonstrated why in Old English willan and sculan were more suitable candidates for grammaticalisation as auxiliaries to denote future time than beon and weorþan

Equity und Equality, Chancengleichheit und Chancengerechtigkeit im Bildungssystem. Eine Spurensuche

Schrittesser I, Wischer B. Equity und Equality, Chancengleichheit und Chancengerechtigkeit im Bildungssystem. Eine Spurensuche. Journal für LehrerInnenbildung. 2013;13(1):4-7

Monoflexion

Ackermann T. Monoflexion. In: Habermann M, Wischer I, eds. Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK): Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2022

Historische Morphologie

Ackermann T. Historische Morphologie. In: Habermann M, Wischer I, eds. Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK): Historische Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2022