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Introduction
Theaimofthebook
Theprincipalaimofthebook
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istodiscussdiachronicwordorderten-
denciesintheEnglishlanguageinthecontextofsomeIndo-Europeanlan-
guages.Wetakeintoaccountselectedprosetextstakenfromthetwolarge
periodsofthehistoryofEnglish,namelyOldEnglishandMiddleEnglish,
andwemakeadetailedanalysisoftheirwordorderstructure.Thecentral
pointofouranalysisisthechangefromOVtoVOinthehistoryofEnglish
wordorder.Wetrytoestablishwhenthischangetookplace,whatthediffer-
encewasbetweenthebehaviourofnominalandpronominalobjectsinthe
change,howmuchexternalinfluencetheremighthavebeeninthechange,
andwhatwasactuallyresponsibleforthechange.Thisanalysishasbeen
greatlyfacilitatedbythecomputer-basedtaggedcorpusthatweconstructed
inordertobeabletoinvestigatethewordorderphenomenathatareofinter-
esttous.Theconstructionofourowntaggedcorpusfortheanalysisofword
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Wewouldliketonotethefactthatsomepartsofthebookhavealreadybeenpub-
lishedintheformofarticleswhichweincludeinthebibliographyattheand.Wealsogive
specialcredittotheoriginalpublishersof:KIDAI.,2010:4HowNorman-Frenchhinderedthe
developmentofEnglishwordordertowardsVO’.In:FISIAKJi,edi:StudiesinEnglishMe-
diaevalLanguageandLiterature,Vol.25:IMAYAHASHIO.,NAKAOYi,OGURAM.,eds:Aspects
oftheHistoryofEnglishLanguageandLiterature,SelectedPapersReadatSHELL2009,
Hiroshima.FrankfurtamMain1Berlin1Bern1Bruxelles1NewYork1Oxford1Wien:
PeterLang2010,pp.2851291;KIDAI.,2007:4Theconstructionofataggedcorpusandthe
investigationofthechangefromOVtoVOinEnglish’.In:AcademicPapersofCollegeof
ForeignLanguages.Vol.4:Linguistics.Częstochowa:WydawnictwoWSL,pp.82185.