I-XL -- I Language history. The history of English -- Phonetics/Phonology -- Phonaesthesia and other forms of word play -- Middle English phonology without the syllable -- Chaucerian phonemics: Evidence and interpretation -- The hiatus in English historical phonology -- Early Modern English vowel shortenings in monosyllables before dentals: A morphologically conditioned sound change? -- The metrical prominence hierarchy in Old English verse -- Morphology -- The issue of double modals in the history of English revisited -- The evolution of definite and indefinite articles in English -- The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns -- The root of the matter: OE wyrt, wyrtwale, -a, wyrt(t)rum(a) and cognates -- Nominal markedness changes in three Old and Middle English psalters - using the past to predict the past -- The instrumental in Old English -- Cumulative phenomena between prefixes and verbs in Old English -- Morphological variation and change in Early Modern English: my/mine, thy/thine -- The genitive and the category of case in the history of English -- Weak-to-strong: A shift in English verbs? -- Chaucer's compound nouns: Patterns and productivity -- Syntax -- Subjecthood and the English impersonal -- The grammaticalisation of infinitival to in English compared with German and Dutch -- -THING in English: A case of grammaticalization? -- Topics in Old and Middle English negative sentences -- Topicalization in Old English and its effects. Some remarks -- "Therfor speke playnly to the poynt": Punctuation in Robert Keayne's notes of church meetings from early Boston, New England -- ME can and gan in context -- Economy as a principle of syntactic change -- Optional THAT with subordinators in Middle English -- Relative clauses in Thomas Browne: On the way to standard syntax -- Subject-oriented adverbs in a diachronic and contrastive perspective -- The concept of the macrosyntagm in Early Modern English prison narratives -- Object-verb word order in 16th century English: A study of its frequency and status -- Lexis -- Three etymological cruxes: Early Middle English cang 'fool(ish)' and (Early) Middle English cangun/conjoun 'fool', Middle English crois versus cross and Early Modern English clown -- "With this ring I thee wed": The verbs to wed and to marry in the history of English -- The 'Hard Words' of Levins' dictionary -- From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon and Oxford -- "To make merry", its variants in Middle English, and the Helsinki Corpus -- Translation as enrichment of language in sixteenth century England: The Courtyer (1561) by Sir Thomas Hoby -- Re-examining the influence of Scandinavian on English: The case of ditch/dike -- Forget-me-not - an English plant name of European lineage -- Some East Anglian dialect words in the light of historical toponymy -- Word-formation and the text in Early English: The axiological functions of Old English prefixes -- Varieties, past and present -- The battle at 'Acleah': A linguist's reflection on annals 851 and 871 of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- What to call a name? Problems of "head-forms" for Old English personal names -- Laʒamon's idiolect -- The influence of English upon Scottish writing -- The dialects of Middle English -- The Northern paradigm and its implications for scribal grammar in Þe Wohnunge of Ure Lauerd -- Punctuation in the Middle English prose legend of St Faith in MS Southwell Minster 7 -- Derivation of it from Þat in eastern dialects of British English -- Social embedding of linguistic changes in Tudor English -- On the representation of English low vowels -- The possessive adjective as involvement marker in colonial Virginia cookeries -- British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: The case of East Anglian do -- On negation in dialectal English -- General -- English historical linguistics and philology in Japan 1950-1994: A survey with a list of publications arranged in chronological order -- Knowledge of Old English in the Middle English period? -- By Saint Tanne: Pious oaths or swearing in Middle English? An assessment of genres -- Historical linguistics. Language groups and families -- On the linguistic prehistory of Finno-Ugric -- The development of the Germanic suffix -isk- -- A case of divergent phonological evolution in West Germanic -- Some West Indo-European words of uncertain origin -- The history of linguistics -- Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze -- 'Speculative' historical linguistics -- Language contact, language history and history of linguistics: John Palsgrave's "Anglo-French" grammar (1530) -- Language contact and change. Contact -- Cross-dialectal parallels and language contacts: Evidence from Celtic Englishes -- A note on the use of data from non-standard varieties of English in linguistic argumentation -- Arguments for creolisation in Irish English -- Romance Germanic contact and the peripheral vowel feature -- The cline of creoleness in negation patterns of Caribbean English creoles -- Change -- How languages living apart together may innovate their systems (as illustrated by to in Russian) -- Lexical diffusion and evolution theory -- Types and tokens in language change: Some evidence from Romance -- A sound change in progress? -- Grammatical ambiguity and language change