English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume I: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions

Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber, Robert Mailhammer: Introduction: Capturing and explaining syntactic change in the history of English

Part I: Verbal constructions
Nils-Lennart Johannesson: “Þonne hate we hine morgensteorra.” On verb complementation in Old English
Juhani Rudanko: Tracking and explaining variation and change in the grammar of American English. A case study, with evidence from the TIME Corpus 
Elina Sellgren: Prevent and the battle of the ‑ing clauses. Semantic divergence?
Robin Straaijer: Prescription or practice? Be/have variation with past participles of mutative intransitive verbs in the letters of Joseph Priestley
Minoji Akimoto: On the idiomatization of “give + O + to” constructions 
An Van linden: The clausal complementation of good in extraposition constructions. The emergence of partially filled constructions 

Part II: Modality and (marginal) modals
Thomas Egan: The ‘fail to’ construction in Late Modern and Present-Day English 
Jerzy Nykiel: The interplay of modal verbs and adverbs. A history of mæg eaþe 
Joanne Close & Bas Aarts: Current change in the modal system of English. A case study of must, have to and have got to 

Part III: Developments in the English noun phrase
Artur Bartnik: Discontinuous quantificational structures in Old English 
Teo Juvonen: Genitive variation in letters, history writing and sermons in Late Middle and Early Modern English 

Part IV: Syntactic variation and change through contact
Ilse Wischer: On the use of beon and wesan in Old English 
Margaret Laing: The reflexes of OE beon as a marker of futurity in early Middle English 
Masayuki Ohkado: Stylistic fronting in the history of English