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It is generally agreed that so-called impersonal constructions which occurred with high frequency in Old English rapidly decreased in Middle English and that it became obsolete by the Modern English period. However, it is not the case that each construction type disappeared in the same fashion. The present paper is an attempt to give a natural explanation to the following two questions within the framework of the GB theory, especially by using the notion "parameter. "<BR>(A) Why did all the impersonal constructions not disappear in the same period ?<BR>(B) What kinds of historical changes in English syntax are relevant to the demise of impersonal constructions ?<BR>If it is exhibited that the language change is, in fact, the change of the value of certain parameters which is initially proposed to explain the diversity of synchronically-existing language, the theory of language change is to be supported by synchronic studies. At the same time, the plausibility of the proposed parameters is strengthened by diachronic data.
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