@ARTICLE{Łęcki_Andrzej_M._On_2017,
 author={Łęcki, Andrzej M.},
 volume={vol. 38},
 journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA},
 pages={125-136},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach},
 abstract={The aim of this article is to examine the development and status of LEST – the most common subordinator introducing negative purpose clauses in Middle English. After presenting the relevant nomenclature of the subject and the etymology of the original structure, I analyse different meanings of LEST, i.e. avertive, in-case, apprehensive and apprehensional epistemic functions as well as its structural development throughout the Middle English period. The data for this study are drawn primarily from the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English because of the chronological order of the texts included which should enable tracing potential developments of the studied expression.},
 type={Article},
 title={On the evolution of subordinators expressing negative purpose: the case of lest in Middle English},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/101749/PDF/LS%2038_9%20%C5%81%C4%99cki.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/linsi.2017.117046},
}