This monograph is one of the studies on English verb syntax especially focusing on its changes
in Old and Middle English periods. Investigations have been made so far by the author on
'impersonal' verbs reflexive constructions verbs of motion verbs of emotion and other verbs
in various semantic fields. In this study the author explains all the periphrastic expressions
found in the early history of English some of which survived up to Modern English by using
dictionary data and her own findings. She tries to show the devices of periphrastic expressions
with modal and other auxiliaries which have supplied simple verb forms in writings and
translations in the process of the language change.
