Modelling lexical diffusion in syntax: non-finite complementation in Modern English

Project H4 aims to better understand the development of different patterns of non-finite complementation in English since 1500, working towards an explanatory theory of why and how these patterns diffused through the verbal lexicon in the way that they did
This is a project under the research unit SILPAC; Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change. SILPAC aims at creating a structure of interdisciplinary linguistic research in which researchers specialised in the two fields of historical linguistics and psycholinguistics closely collaborate with the goal of providing an empirically and theoretically well-grounded explanation of the links between language processing, acquisition and change, informed by mathematical modelling.