Exploring English historical syntax / Hubert Cuyckens -- "Permissive" subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English / Bettelou Los -- Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale's New Testament / Nikolaos Lavidas -- On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in English / Günter Rohdenburg -- Finite causative complements in Middle English / Brian Lowrey -- Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English / Yoko Iyeiri -- Semantic and lexical shifts with the "into-causative" construction in American English / Mark Davies and Jong-Bok Kim -- Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based study / Carla Bouzada Jabois -- Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax / David Tizón-Couto -- Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots / Christine Elsweiler -- A study of Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation / Kousuke Kaita -- Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That's the bottom line is (that) in American English / Reijirou Shibasaki.