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Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The dialects of Middle English: from OldEnglish to Middle English; the dialects of Middle English; thePenn-Helsinki-parsed corpus of Middle English. Part 3 Syntactic change:mechanisms of syntactic change; syntactic change and first-languageacquisition; syntactic change and language contact; conclusion. Part 4 Wordorder change in Early Middle English: word order in Old English; the analysesof OV word order in Old English; the analyses of the change from OV to VO inEarly Middle English; OV and VO order in Early Middle English; a note oninfl-final/infl-medial competition in the Ormulum; conclusion. Part 5 Objectmovement: object shift; scrambling. Part 6 V2 and cliticization of subjectpronouns: the V2 phenomenon in the Germanic languages; the V2 phenomenon inOld English; the V2 phenomenon in Early Middle English; V2 and cliticizationin the Ormulum. Part 7 Stylistic fronting: properties of stylistic fronting;theories of stylistic fronting; stylistic fronting in Middle English texts;conclusion. Part 8 Summary and conclusions: appendices.