| Theory and methodology | p. 1 |
| Translation and the history of English | p. 3 |
| The evidence for analytic and synthetic developments in English | p. 25 |
| Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography | p. 42 |
| A social model for the interpretation of language change | p. 72 |
| How to study Old English syntax? | p. 92 |
| Phonology and orthography | p. 101 |
| Exceptionality and non-specification in the history of English phonology | p. 103 |
| The myth of "the Anglo-Norman scribe" | p. 117 |
| Old English ABCs | p. 130 |
| What, if anything, was the Great Vowel Shift? | p. 144 |
| Lexical and morphological consequences of phonotactic change in the history of English | p. 156 |
| Lexical phonology and diachrony | p. 167 |
| Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb | p. 191 |
| Middle English vowel quantity reconsidered | p. 207 |
| Morphology and syntax | p. 223 |
| On explaining the historical development of English genitives | p. 225 |
| A touch of (sub-)class? Old English "preterite-present" verbs | p. 241 |
| The information present: present tense for communication in the past | p. 262 |
| Structural factors in the history of English modals | p. 287 |
| Subordinating uses of and in the history of English | p. 310 |
| The distribution of verb forms in Old English subordinate clauses | p. 319 |
| Relative constructions and functional amalgamation in Early Modern English | p. 336 |
| The use of to and for in Old English | p. 352 |
| Man's son/son of man: translation, textual conditioning, and the history of the English genitive | p. 359 |
| Why is the element order to [actual symbol not reproducible] him 'said to him' impossible? | p. 373 |
| On the development of the by-agent in English | p. 379 |
| Pragmatics of this and that | p. 401 |
| A valency description of Old English possessive verbs | p. 418 |
| Who(m)? Constraints on the loss of case marking of wh-pronouns in the English of Shakespeare and other poets of the Early Modern English period | p. 437 |
| "I not say": bridge phenomenon in syntactic change | p. 453 |
| Lexis and semantics | p. 463 |
| The status of word formation in Middle English: approaching the question | p. 465 |
| Post-dating Romance loan-words in Middle English: are the French words of the Katherine Group English? | p. 483 |
| Rich Lake: a case history | p. 506 |
| Varieties and dialects | p. 517 |
| The evolution of a vernacular | p. 519 |
| Relativization in the Dorset dialect | p. 532 |
| William Barnes and the south west dialect of English | p. 556 |
| A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: the value of texts surviving in more than one version | p. 566 |
| A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English: tradition and typology | p. 582 |
| A chapter in the worldwide spread of English: Malta | p. 592 |
| "Du's no heard da last o'dis" - on the use of be as a perfective auxiliary in Shetland dialect | p. 602 |
| On the morphology of verbs in Middle Scots: present and present perfect indicative | p. 611 |
| The pace of change in Appalachian English | p. 624 |
| Variability in Old English and the continental Germanic languages | p. 640 |
| Variability in Tok Pisin phonology: "Did you say 'pig' or 'fig'?" | p. 647 |
| Text types and individual texts | p. 669 |
| Chaucer's Boece: a syntactic and lexical analysis | p. 671 |
| The linguistic evolution of five written and speech-based English genres from the 17th to the 20th centuries | p. 688 |
| The do variant field in questions and negatives: Jane Austen's Complete Letters and Mansfield Park | p. 705 |
| The repertoire of topic changers in personal, intimate letters: a diachronic study of Osborne and Woolf | p. 720 |
| Text-types and language history: the cookery recipe | p. 736 |
| Macaronic writing in a London archive, 1380-1480 | p. 762 |
| Abbreviations of titles of textual sources | p. 771 |
| Name index | p. 781 |
| Subject index | p. 791 |
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