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Two types of passivization of "V+NP+P" constructions in relation toidiomatization, Minoji Akimoto; on the development of "A Friend of Mine";historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrasestructures - how long can you go without a verb?, Douglas Biber, VictoriaClark; grammaticalization versus lexicalization reconsidered - on the lateuse of temporal adverbs, Laurel J. Brinton; the derivation of ornative,locative, ablative, privative and reversative verbs in English - a historicalsketch, Dieter Kastovsky; from gold-gifa to chimney sweep? - morphological(un)markedness of modern English agent nouns in a diachronic perspective,Lucia Kornexl; a path to volitional modality, Manfred Krug; is it, stylewiseor otherwise, wise to use - wise? - domain adverbials and the history ofEnglish -wise, Ursula Lenker; the loss of the indefinite pronoun man -syntactic change and information structure, Bettelou Los; the progressive inearly Scots, Anneli Meurman-Solin; detransitivization in the history ofEnglish from a semantic perspective, Ruth Mohling, Monika Klages; morphologyrecycled - the principle of rhythmic alternation of work in early and lateModern English grammatical variation, Julia Schluter.