I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Structure -- 1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity -- Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English -- On the history of relative that -- The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs -- On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English -- The indefinite pronoun man: "nominal" or "pronominal"? -- 1.2. Form and function -- Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English -- The position of the adjective in Old English -- On the history of the s-genitive -- The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English -- Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation -- 2. Text types -- Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change -- The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century -- The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts -- 3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology -- Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period -- The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or "Howe the Scots will declare themselv 's" -- Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century -- Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots -- Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English -- Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography -- 4. Phonology -- HappY-tensing: A recent innovation? -- Syllable ONSET in the history of English -- Name index -- Subject index