The purpose of this paper is to investigate the meanings of the prepositions in, innan and into and survey the forms of their complements in early Middle English. Examples are taken from annals 1070-1154 of the Peterborough Chronicle. The author finds that, broadly speaking, in occurs more frequently in the second half of the corpus, where it is polysemous. He also finds that, compared with the first half of the corpus, the occurrences of innan and into decrease in the second half, and that, consequently, the meanings denoted by the two prepositions become fewer.
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