RT Book, Section T1 Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: a case study of "like" and "please" A1 Castro Chao, Noelia A2 Ferrández San Miguel, María A2 Neumann, Claus Peter AB One of the most widely discussed topics in the field of English historical syntax is the so-called impersonal construction. Although traditional accounts generally relate the demise of the impersonal construction to the deep morphosyntactic transformations that took place over the history of the English language, recent investigations have outlined additional hypotheses to account for the cause(s) for its loss. In light of the most recent studies on the topic, this investigation provides a corpus-based analysis of two formerly impersonal verbs, namely "like" (