Introduction: Boundaries and boundarycrossings in the history of English

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributor addresses IX
5. Introduction: Boundaries and boundarycrossings in the history of English 1
6. Section 1: Conceptual and methodological boundaries
7. 1. Scale and mode in histories of English 23
8. 2. The blurred boundaries of genres-in-use: Principles and implications from rhetorical genre studies for English historical linguistics 45
9. 3. Meanderings from early English to World Englishes: A Complex Systems perspective on morphosyntactic changes in wh-pronouns 73
10. Section 2: Linguistic boundaries
11. 4. First or best, last not least: Domain edges in the history of English 109
12. 5. Expanding boundaries of a function word: Uses of one in Early Modern and Modern English 135
13. 6. Non-correlative commas between subjects and verbs in Early and Late Modern English sermons and scientific texts 167
14. 7. Old English verbs of envy: Class membership and grammatical behaviour 187
15. Section 3: Language and language variety boundaries
16. 8. Germanic /r/ as an isogloss, rhotacism, and the West Germanic gemination 211
17. 9. Migration, localities, and discourse: Shifting linguistic boundaries in Swedish-American cookbooks 225
18. 10. Specimen texts and boundaries in the history of the English language 249
19. Coda: HEL-bound 271
20. Index 279