Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Handbook of English Historical Linguistics -- Acknowledgments -- General abbreviations -- IX. Resources -- 71. Resources: Early textual resources -- 72. Resources: Electronic/online resources -- 73. Resources: Lexicographic resources -- 74. Resources: Teaching perspectives -- 75. Resources: Textbooks -- 76. Resources: Online resources for teaching -- X. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography -- 77. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography: Literature -- 78. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography: Music as a language - the history of an idea -- 79. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography: Periodization in the history of the English language -- 80. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography: Myths of the English language; or, alternative histories of "English" -- 81. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography: Spoken and written English - orality and literacy -- XI. History of English Historical Linguistics -- 82. History of English Historical Linguistics: Overview -- 83. History of English Historical Linguistics: The historiography of the English language -- 84. History of English Historical Linguistics: North America -- 85. History of English Historical Linguistics: Germany and the German-speaking countries -- 86. History of English Historical Linguistics: The Netherlands and Belgium -- 87. History of English Historical Linguistics: Northern Europe -- 88. History of English Historical Linguistics: East-Central and Eastern Europe -- 89. History of English Historical Linguistics: Southern Europe -- 90. History of English Historical Linguistics: Asia -- XII. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods -- 91. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Historical dialectology -- 92. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Historical sociolinguistics -- 93. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Historical pragmatics -- 94. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Information structure and syntax in the history of English -- 95. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: The actuation problem revisited -- 96. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Corpus linguistics -- 97. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Frequency and language change -- 98. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Lexical diffusion -- 99. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Grammaticalization -- 100. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Lexicalization -- 101. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Diachronic change and language acquisition -- 102. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Generative approaches to English historical linguistics -- 103. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Construction Grammar -- 104. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods: Lexical Functional Grammar -- XIII. English in Contact -- 105. English in Contact: German and Dutch -- 106. English in Contact: French -- 107. English in Contact: Celtic and Celtic Englishes -- 108. English in Contact: Latin -- 109. English in Contact: Greek -- 110. English in Contact: Norse -- 111. English in Contact: English in contact with other European languages -- 112. English in Contact: Native American Languages -- 113. English in Contact: Pidgins and creoles -- 114. English in Contact: Middle English creolization -- 115. English in Contact: African American English (AAE) early evidence -- XIV. Varieties of English -- 116. Varieties of English: Standard American English -- 117. Varieties of English: Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language -- 118. Varieties of English: Regional varieties of American English -- 119. Varieties of English: Canadian English in real-time perspective -- 120. Varieties of English: Standard British English -- 121. Varieties of English: Received Pronunciation -- 122. Varieties of English: Estuary English -- 123. Varieties of English: Regional varieties of British English -- 124. Varieties of English: Scots -- 125. Varieties of English: English in Ireland -- 126. Varieties of English: English in Wales -- 127. Varieties of English: Australian/ New Zealand English -- 128. Varieties of English: Cockney -- 129. Varieties of English: Diffusion -- 130. Varieties of English: Dialect contact -- 131. Varieties of English: Supraregionalization -- XV. Second-Language Varieties -- 132. Second-Language Varieties: English in India -- 133. Second-Language Varieties: English in Africa-a diachronic typology -- 134. Second-Language Varieties: Second-language varieties of English -- 135. Second-Language Varieties: English-based creoles -- 136. Second-Language Varieties: Global English -- Index