General editor: Raymond Hickey; provisional table of contents

Last updated: 11 August 2020

Volume I: Context, contact and development

Editor: Laura Wright (Cambridge)

Introduction: English, Englishes and the English Language (Raymond Hickey)

I The context of English

1. The Indo-European framework (Donald Ringe)

2. English in its Germanic surrounding (Wayne Harbert)

3. Key events in the history of English (Julia Fernández Cuesta)

4. The geography of English in England (Merja Steenroos)

5. Philology and the history of English (Haruko Momma)

II Contact and external influences

6. Early contact with Celtic (Raymond Hickey)

7. Classical languages in the early history of English (Olga Timofeeva)

8. The Scandinavian period (Richard Dance and Sarah Pons-Sanz)

9. French and English in the later Middle Ages (Geert de Wilde)

10. Code-switching and language mixing (Herbert Schendl)

11. Early standardisation (Louise Sylvester)

12. Neoclassical borrowing and influence on English (Letizia Vezzosi)

13. Typological reorientation in the history of English (Marion Elenbaas)

III The long view by levels of language

14. Historical phonology (Donka Minkova)

15. Historical morphology (Elżbieta Adamczyk)

16. Historical syntax (Bettelou Los)

17. Historical semantics (Kathryn Allan)

18. Historical pragmatics (Andreas Jucker)

19. Historical sociolinguistics (Terttu Nevalainen and Tanja Säily)

20. Hisotrical onomastics (Richard Coates)

Volume II: Documentation, data sources and modelling

Editors: Merja Kytö and Erk Smitterberg (Uppsala)

I The textual record

1. Vernacular speech in writing (Colette Moore)

2. Early documents and literacy (Jeremy Smith)

3. Orality in the history of English (Matylda Włodarczyk)

4. The story of English orthography (Jan Čermák and Ondrej Tichý)

5. English manuscript traditions (Christine Wallis)

6. Text editions and the philological tradition (Matti Peikola)

7. The history of books and printing (Sarah Noonan)

8. Historical corpora of English (Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg)

9. Historical thesauri of English (Marc Alexander and Fraser Dallachy)

II Aspects of the record: areas of usage and genres

10. Foreign elements in the English lexicon (Philip Durkin)

11. Historical slang (Jonathon Green)

12. Fixed expressions: From phrasal verbs to proverbs (Gabriele Knappe)

13. The language of dialect writing (Javier Ruano-García)

14. Lighthouse works and authors I: Beowulf (Robert Fulk)

15. Lighthouse works and authors II: Chaucer (Simon Horobin)

16. Lighthouse works and authors III: Shakespeare’s language (Jonathan Culpeper and Sean Murphy)

17. Grammatical treatises in early English (Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Juho)

18. History writing (Claudia Claridge)

19. The language of religious texts (Tanja Kohnen and Thomas Kohnen)

20. Courtroom evidence and the language of law (Terry Walker)

21. Medical and scientific writing (Turo Hiltunen, Anu Lehto and Irma Taavitsainen)

22. The language of newspapers (Birte Bös and Nicholas Brownlees)

23. The case for ‘bad data’: Early audio records (Raymond Hickey)

24. Ego documents in the history of English (Anita Auer and Raymond Hickey)

25. Familiar letters in a community context (Anni Sairio and Samuli Kaislaniemi)

26. Women’s voices in the history of English (Carol Percy)

III Exploiting the record: theories, methods and models

27. Quantitative methods and the history of English (Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Hendrik de Smet)

28. Generative accounts of change (Cynthia Allen)

29. Functional accounts of change (Hubert Cuyckens)

30. Grammaticalisation (Andrew Smith)

31. Cognitive approaches to the history of English (Alexander Bergs)

32. Construction grammar and English historical linguistics (Martin Hilpert)

33. Psycholinguistic perspectives on language change (Marianne Hundt, Sandra Mollin and Simone Pfenninger)

Volume III: Change, transmission and ideology

Editor: Joan Beal (Sheffield)

I The transmission of English

1. Dictionaries in the history of English (John Considine)

2. Writing grammars for English (Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade)

3. Speech representation in the history of English (Peter Grund)

4. The history of English in the digital age (Caroline Tagg and Melanie Evans)

5. Teaching the history of English (Mary Hayes)

6. Internet resources for the history of English (Ayumi Miura)

II Tracking change in the history of English

7. The history of English style (Nuria Yáñez Bouza and Javier Pérez Guerra)

8. The system of verbal complementation (Hendrik de Smet)

9. Tense and aspect in the history of English (Teresa Fanego)

10. Development of the passive (Peter Petré)

11. Adverbs in the history of English (Ursula Lenker)

12. The story of English negation (Gabriella Mazzon)

13. Case variation in the history of English (Anette Rosenbach)

14. The noun phrase the history of English (Wim van der Wurff)

15. Relativisation (Cristina Suárez Gómez)

16. The development of pragmatic markers (Laurel Brinton)

17. Recent syntactic change in English (Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts)

18. Semantic change (Justyna Robinson)

19. Phonological change (Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden)

20. The history of R in English (Patrick Honeybone)

21. Reconstructing pronunciation (David Crystal)

22. Spelling practices and emergent standard writing (Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre and Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy)

III Ideology, society and the history of English

23. The ideology of standard English (Lesley Milroy)

24. English dictionaries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Charlotte Brewer)

25. The emerging phonological standard (Lynda Mugglestone)

26. The discourse of prescriptivism (Don Chapman)

27. Early standardisation and urban vernaculars (Anita Auer)

28. Networks, coalitions and language change (Marina Dossena)

29. Communities of practice in the history of English (Joanna Kopaczyk)

30. Historical enregisterment (Joan Beal and Paul Cooper)

31. Mythologisaton and the history of English (Richard Watts)

Volume IV: Britain, Ireland and Europe

Editor: Raymond Hickey (Essen)

I Introduction: Language Variation and Change

1. Sociolinguistic sources of change (Devyani Sharma)

2. Life-span changes and the history of English (Isabelle Buchstaller)

3. Vernaculars, supraregional varietues and standards (Raymond Hickey)

4. Historical divisions and perceptual dialectology (Chris Montgomery)

II English in England

5. Dialects, dialectology and the history of English (Warren Maguire)

6. The history of Received Pronunciation (Anne Fabricius)

7. Early London English (Laura Wright)

8. The recent history of London English (Susan Fox)

9. English in the South-West of England (Juhani Klemola)

10. English in East Anglia (David Britain and Robert Potter)

11. English in the Midlands (Esther Asprey and Natalie Braber)

12. English in Merseyside (Kevin Watson)

13. English in Tynewise (Adam Mearns)

III English in Wales

14. The history of English in Wales (Robert Penhallurick)

IV English in Scotland

15. The history of Scots (Joanna Kopaczyk)

16. The lexicography of Scots (Maggie Scott)

17. Taking stock of Scots and Scottish English in the early twenty-first century (Jane Stuart-Smith)

18. English in Orkney and Shetland (Peter Sundkvist)

IV English in Ireland

19. English in the south of Ireland (Raymond Hickey)

20. English in the north of Ireland (Kevin McCafferty)

IV English in Europe

21. English in the Channel Islands (Heinrich Ramisch)

22. English in Gibraltar (Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez)

23. English in Malta (Alexandra Vella and Sarah Grech)

24. English in Cyprus (Sarah Buschfeld and Manuela Vida-Mannl)

Volume V: North America and the Caribbean

Editors: Natalie Schilling (Washington), Derek Denis (Toronto) and Raymond Hickey (Essen)

I The United States

1. Language change and the history of American English (Walt Wolfram)

2. The dialectology of Anglo-American English (Natalie Schilling)

3. The roots and development of New England English (James N. Stanford)

4. The history of the Midland-Northern boundary (Matthew J. Gordon)

5. The spread of English westwards (Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall)

6. American English in the city (Barbara Johnstone)

7. English in the southern United States (Becky Childs and Paul E. Reed)

8. Contact forms of American English (Cristopher Font-Santiago and Joseph Salmons)

African American English

9. The roots of African American English (Tracey L. Weldon)

10. The Great Migration and regional variation in the speech of African Americans (Charlie Farrington)

11. Urban African American English (Nicole Holliday)

12. A longitudinal panel survey of rural African Amercian English (Patricia Cukor-Avila)

Latinx English

13. Puerto Rican English in Puerto Rico and in the continental United States (Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo)

14. The English of Americans of Mexican and Central American heritage (Erik R. Thomas)

II Canada

15. Anglophone settlement and the creation of Canadian English (Charles Boberg)

16. The open-class lexis of Canadian English: History, structure, and social correlations (Stefan Dollinger)

17. Ontario English: Loyalists and beyond (Derek Denis, Bridget Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte)

18. The Prairies and West of Canada (Alex D’Arcy and Nicole Rosen)

19. English in Newfoundland (William Kirwin, rev. Sandra Clarke and Raymond Hickey)

20. Canadian Maritime English (Matt Hunt Gardner)

21. A (socio)linguistic aperçu of English as a minority language: the case of Quebec (Shana Poplack)

III The Caribbean

22. Early English-lexifier creole in the circum-Caribbean area (Norval Smith)

23. The Caribbean anglophone contact varieties: Creoles and koinés (Jeffrey Williams)

24. The development of English in Jamaica (Sylvia Kouwenberg)

25. The anglophone Caribbean Rim (Angela Bartens)

26. North American - Caribbean linguistic connections (Stephanie Hackert)

Volume VI: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific

Editor: Raymond Hickey (Essen) and Kate Burridge (Melbourne)

I The spread of English overseas

1. Transported English in the colonial period (Raymond Hickey)

2. Modelling the formation and developmental trajectories of varieties of English (Edgar Schneider)

3. Towards a history of World Englishes (Rajend Mesthrie)

4. English as a second and foreign language (Andy Kirkpatrick)

5. The history of English as a lingua franca (Jennifer Jenkins)

6. Pidgins and creoles in the history of English (John McWhorter)

II Africa

West Africa

7. Liberia (John Victor Singler)

8. Sierra Leone (Kofi Yakpo, Malcolm Finney and Saida Bangura)

9. Ghana (Thorsten Brato)

10. Nigeria (Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah)

11. Cameroon (Hans-Georg Wolf and Eric Anchimbe)

East Africa

12. Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda (Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Anne-Marie Kagwesage)

13. Kenya, Tanzania (Josef Schmied)

Southern Africa

14. South Africa I – The anglophone settlement of South Africa (Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz)

15. South Africa II – English of the black population of South Africa (Rajend Mesthrie, Bertus van Rooy and Ron Simango)

16. South Africa III – English of Afrikaans speakers (Bertus van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman)

17. South Africa IV – English of the Indian population of South Africa (Rajend Mesthrie)

18. Namibia (Sarah Buschfeld)

19. Zimbabwe (Susan Fitzmaurice)

III The South Atlantic

20. St Helena and Tristan da Cunha (Daniel Schreier)

21. The English of the Falkland islands (David Britain, Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury)

IV Asia

South Asia

22. English in India (Robert Fuchs and Claudia Lange)

23. English in Pakistan (Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber)

24. English in Sri Lanka (Tobias Bernaisch)

East Asia

25. English in mainland China (Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang)

26. Hong Kong English: From colonial to postcolonial English (Kingsley Bolton)

27. English in Korea (Sofia Rüdiger)

28. English in Japan (Toshiko Yamaguchi)

South-East Asia

29. English in Singapore (Jakob Leimgruber)

30. English in Brunei and Malaysia (David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad)

31. Englishes in the Philippines (Isabel Pefianco Martín)

V Australasia

Australia

32. Australian English (Kate Burridge and Pam Peters)

33. Australian Creoles (Sally Dixon)

34. Australian Aboriginal English (Celeste Rodríguez Louro)

New Zealand

35. New Zealand English (Lynn Clark, James Brand, Jennifer Hay and Kevin Watson)

36. Maori and Pasifika English (Anita Szakay and Andy Gibson)

VI The Pacific

37. Pidgin and English in Hawai‘i (James Grama, Katie Drager and Michelle Baron)

38. English in Micronesia (David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto)

39. English and Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Craig Volker)

40. English in the South Pacific (Carolin Biewer)

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