CONTENTS


................Introduction

1..............The Data

1.1...........Introduction
1.2...........Inventory and Morphology
1.3...........Syntax
1.4...........Semantics
1.5...........Related Phenomena

2..............An Interlude

2.1...........Introduction
2.2...........Synchrony
2.3...........Diachrony

3..............The Explanations

3.1...........Introduction
3.2...........The Works of Lightfoot
3.3...........The Critics of Lightfoot
3.4...........Modals and Government & Binding
3.5...........Warner Revisited

4..............The Nature of Historical Syntax

4.1...........Historical Syntax
4.2...........Syntactic History
4.3...........Diachronic Syntax and the Modals
4.4...........Conclusion

................Notes

................References

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