New publication: 'Recent grammatical change in English'
Bowie and Aarts
Recent grammatical change in English
by Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts
In: Joan Beal (ed.) The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Transmission, Change and Ideology, Vol. III, 2025, 505-535.
www.academia.edu/145369089/Re...
Congratulations on the article. I was only vaguely aware of the replacement of "remembered to have" with "remembered having," but I see Dickens using the infinitive in Bleak House and not finding it later in the century when I spot-check Eliot and Hardy.
It's interesting that the revival of the mandative subjunctive is a phenomenon in American English, which I would not have guessed. I'd be curious to see if it correlates with the percentage of the U.S. population with legal training.
I enjoyed reading your work.