i-vi -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bibliography of Leon Kellner's writings -- Should -- On the typological status of Old English -- What positions fit in? -- Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English -- Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry -- The rise of the passive infinitive in English -- Question-answer sequences in Old English -- Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse -- Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English -- Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English? -- Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach -- Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose -- Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis -- The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases -- Semantic aspects of syntactic change -- Subordination and word order change in the history of English -- Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English -- Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English -- On the stylistic basis of syntactic change -- Index of technical terms and topics -- Index of names -- 511-512