Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Millennial perspectives -- From etymology to historical pragmatics -- Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in -- English historical linguistics -- Dialectology and the history of the English -- language -- Origin unknown -- Issues for a new history of English prosody -- Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur? -- A rejoinder to Youmans and Li -- Phonology and metrics -- On the development of English r -- Vowel variation in English rhyme -- Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound -- change -- Dating criteria for Old English poems -- How much shifting actually occurred in the -- historical English vowel shift? -- Restoration of /a/ revisited -- Morphosyntax/Semantics -- Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in -- Early Modern English -- Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in -- English -- Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The -- position of finite verb and adverbs -- The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it -- to the Modern English perfect? -- Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander -- depositions -- The emergence of the verb-verb compound in -- twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics -- Envoy -- A thousand years of the history of English -- Backmatter