Bækken, Bjørg: Word order in 17th century EnglishThis book presents the results of a corpus based study of the surface order of subject and finite verb in 17th century English, covering declarative main clauses starting with a non subject element. The aim of the study is to examine English word order as reflected in the corpus and the diachronic changes that may be evident during the period concerned. An important part of the presentation consists in detailed descriptions of the various word order