By History of English, Past perfect

are. What has happened to them in Modern English? There was no future tense in Old English even though the predecessor of will was sometimes used to indicate future action. Its meaning was "to want, to desire" and will has mostly lost this meaning. It is still present in some contexts,...

Thank you for the kind proposal. If you have the titles of those books, could you kindly put them in the thread of the history of English language in Linguistics Discussion Forum? I'm interested especially in the language change happened during/immediately after the Viking Age. paco

I got this kind of knowledge through OED and a cheap book written by late Toshio Nakao who was a lecturer on history of English in some university (University of Glasgow?) in Great Britain. paco