Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms

The Editors: Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Dieter Kastovsky, Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl teach at the Department of English at the University of Vienna and have published widely in different areas of English Historical Linguistics.

• Contents: Minoji Akimoto: On the Decline of after and forth in Verb Phrases – Anita Auer: Precept and Practice: The Influence of Prescriptivism on the English Subjunctive – Joan C. Beal/Anthony P. Grant: «Make do and mend»: An Online Investigation into Processes of Neologisation and the Dearth of Borrowing in Newer English Wartime Vocabulary – Claudia Claridge: ‘With the most superlative felicitee’: Functions of the Superlative in 19th-Century English – Thomas Egan: Pronominal and Full Nominal Subjects in Expanding Constructions – Larisa Oldireva Gustafsson: Irregular Verbs in 17th- and 18th-Century English Grammars: A Maze of Classifications – Minna Palander-Collin/Minna Nevala: Reporting in 18th-Century Letters of Hester Piozzi – Günter Rohdenburg: The Role of Functional Constraints in the Evolution of the English Complementation System – Anni Sairio: Progressives in the Letters of Elizabeth Montagu and her Circle in 1738-1778 – Elena Seoane: Changing Styles: On the Recent Evolution of Scientific British and American English – Stefan Thim: Phrasal Verbs in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Combinations with back, down, forth, out, and up – Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: «Disrespectful and too familiar»? Abbreviations as an Index of Politeness in 18th-Century Letters.