The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change,

This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the pre

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions r

This book comprises a series of studies by a number of scholars working on what might broadly be termed the “medieval” period of the history of English, foc

This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigati