This investigation is part of the authors' larger research project on so-called minor
declarative complementizers in the history of English, that is, connectives recruited mostly in …

Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English Page 1 Verbs of
Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English Yoko Iyeiri John Benjamins …

In this article we look at a case of secondary grammaticalization in English which entails the
development of originally adverbial subordinators into complement-clause connectives. The …

This article explores the process of grammaticalization undergone by complementation
constructions with the shell nouns chances and odds, namely (the) chances/(the) odds+ BE+ …

This article examines the development of the subordinators till and until as minor
complementizers in the Late Middle English and Early Modern English periods. An analysis …

This article examines the history of a construction type which has been almost completely
disregarded in the extensive literature on complementation, namely declarative complement …

Literature on British dialects (overview in Kortmann 2005: 1095) has already widely reported
the use of the as-relativizer. However, as also occurs as complementizer in non-standard …

This article discusses some of the potential problems derived from the syntactic annotation
of historical corpora, especially in connection with low-frequency phenomena. By way of …

This paper is a study of the expression can help, meaning 'can refrain/avoid'. It focuses on
the polarity and the fixedness of this expression and on its complex complementation. A …

Complementizer choice, in particular the variation between the major finite declarative
complementizers that and zero, has long attracted the attention of scholars working on …