Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 2. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics 5
5. Chapter 3. An account of the use of fronting and clefting in Cornish English 35
6. Chapter 4. How does causal connection originate? 57
7. Chapter 5. Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders 75
8. Chapter 6. From eadig to happy 97
9. Chapter 7. Distributional changes in synonym sets 119
10. Chapter 8. The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English 143
11. Chapter 9. Speech acts in the history of English 165
12. Index 181