Contributors; Preface; Foreword; In Memoriam Barbara Strang;
Part1: Old to Middle English Period;
1. The Difficulty of Establishing Borrowings Between Old English and the Continental West Germanic Languages
2. Cyn(e)wulf Revisted: The Problem of the Runic Signatures
3. Snuck: The Development of Irregular Preterite Forms
4. Ambiguous Negations in Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth
5. Goodbye to All ‘That’? The History and Present Behaviour of Optional ‘That’
6. The Rise of the For NP to V Construction: An Explanation
7. Negation in Shakespeare
8. Englishmen and Their Moods: Renaissance Grammar and the English Verb;
Part2: Middle to Modern English Period;
9. The Great Vowel-Shift and Other Vowel-Shifts
10. Thematic Genitives
11. The Discourse Properties of the Criminal Statute
12. Varietas Delectat: Forms and Functions of English Around the World 13: ‘Talking Proper’: Schooling and the Establishment of English ‘Received Pronunciation’
14. The Methods of Urban Linguistics Surveys
15. A Bibliography of Barbara Strang