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Syntax (Do-Support (OE (No periphrastic do, Do was used as a full verb),…

- - - - Do in affirmative sentences was lost again during the 18th century
  - - - you can still find questions without do support well into the 18th century
      - Affirmative, declarative and y/n-questions establish first
      - Wh-questions and negative declaratives establish later
  - - - the subject in questions can remain right before the "real" verb
- - - - relatively flexible, but not entirely free
      - often dependent on information structure and similar factors
    - - grammatical word order
      - fixed order used to indicate grammatical relations between sentence constituents
    - - General sequence in which S, O
        and V occur
  - - - V1
      - V2
      - V-End
    - - Basic position
        clause final (V-end)
      - V2 is very frequent in main clauses but not obligatory
      - Brace construction
        
        finite verb form is in the second position (left brace), the non finite form is in clause final position (right brace)
        
        When there are a finite and non-finite verb form
      - Object could appear before the verb (OV)
    - - finite verb could still precede the subject
      - OV pattern in steady decline
    - - only a few inversion patterns remained
      - Only VO used productively
  - - - Inflectional endings were declining and could no longer be used to express syntactic relations
        
        New system to mark subjects and objects
        
        fixed word order as a syntactic compensation strategy