I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English -- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English -- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 -- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English -- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects