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Kim, Dae-Ik. 2011. Derivations of Old English Constructions and Word Order Change. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-1, 49-68. A standard view of the historical development of English word order involves the shift from OV in Old English to VO in the Middle/Present English. However ,in this article, with a great deal of surface VO order already in Old English the basic word order in Old English is assumed to be VO like that of the Present English. Thus the change of word order from Old English to the Present English is attributed to the difference of the phase in speakers' internalized grammar; Old English with lack of functional categories of TP and vP has only a CP phase whereas the Present English has CP and vP as phases, with TP and vP functional categories added. Thus assuming that in Old English modal verbs(AUX) and main verbs (V) occupied the same V-position, one of both must move out of the vP due to the LCA which requires the linear order each other for interpreting them in the interface levels, deriving AUX-V order or V-AUX order. With additional object raising we can show how the word orders in Old English were derived. Thus it is argued that word order pattern in the history of English paces with the notion that a monadic phase(CP-VP) has been branched off into a dyadic phase(CP-TP, vP-VP). In the Middle English where a monadic phase was being changed to a dyadic phase, the speakers were confused about which phase should be accepted. Thus the sentences with three different verb positions with the same meaning appeared at that time. (YoungSan University)