Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics - Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)

In three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English pronouns by borrowed pronouns, the introduction and spread of >wh-relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun).