Foreword & Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Norse influence on English in the light of general contact linguistics 15
6. The Germanic roots of the Old English sound system 43
7. Monetary policy and Old English dialects 73
8. The order and schedule of nominal plural formation transfer in three Southern dialects of Early Middle English 95
9. The temporal and regional contexts of the numeral ‘two’ in Middle English 115
10. Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora 131
11. Discourse organization and the rise of final then in the history of English 153
12. The origins of how come and what…for 177
13. “Providing/provided that” 197
14. Prefer 215
15. The 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810–2009) 231
16. Gender change from Old to Middle English 263
17. “Please tilt me-ward by return of post” 289
18. Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain 313
19. “No man entreth in or out” 327
20. Beyond questions and answers 349
21. The demise of gog and cock and their phraseologies in dramatic discourse 369
22. Index 383