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A lovely little example: word order options and category sift in thepremodifying string; the grammaticalization of the verb "pray"; thegrammaticalization of concessive markers in Early Modern Engish; combiningEnglish auxilaries; grammaticalization: unidirectional, non-reversable? thecase of to before the infinitive in English; remarks on thede-grammaticalization of infinitval to in present-day American English; therole of person and position in Old English; remarks on (uni)directionality;soplice and witodlice; discourse markers in Old English; onginnan/beginnanwith bare and to-infinitive in aelfric; some suggestions for explaining theorigin and development of the definite artictle in English; parallelismversus asymmetry: the case of English counterfactual conditionals; thegrammaticalization of the present perfect in English: tracts of change andcontinuity in a linguistic enclave; grammaticalization versus lexicalization:"methinks" there is some confusion.