I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- Initial adverbials and word order in English with special reference to the Early Modern English period -- Are Shakespeare's agent nouns different from Chaucer's? - On the dynamics of a derivational sub-system -- The construction be going to + infinitive in Early Modern English -- "Sumer is icumen in": the seasons of the year in Middle English and Early Modern English -- The place-name evidence for the distribution of Early Modern English dialect features: the voicing of initial /f-/ -- Text deixis in Early Modern English -- On phrasal verbs in Early Modern English: notes on lexis and style -- The use of thou and you in Early Modern spoken English: evidence from depositions in the Durham ecclesiastical court records -- Orthoepists and reformers -- Vocalisation of "post-vocalic r" - an Early Modern English sound change? -- From stress-timing to syllable-timing: changes in the prosodic system of Late Middle English and Early Modern English -- Lexical semantics and the Early Modern English lexicon: the case of antonymy -- Early Modern English passive constructions -- Infl in Early Modern English and the Status of to -- Aspects of adverbial change in Early Modern English -- Periodization in language history: Early Modern English and the other periods -- Degree adverbs in Early Modern English -- The ugly sister - Scots words in Early Modern English dictionaries -- The development of the compound pronouns in -body and -one in Early Modern English -- Social conditioning and diachronic language change -- The position of not in Early Modern English questions -- William Turner and the English plant names -- The history of the English language and future English teachers -- You that be not able to consyder thys order of thinges: Variability and change in the semantics and syntax of a mental verb in Early Modern English -- The expression of deontic and epistemic modality and the subjunctive -- Any as an indefinite determiner in non-assertive clauses: evidence from Present-day and Early Modern English -- Loss of postvocalic r: Were the orthoepists really tone-deaf? -- Early Modern London business English -- The mystery of the modal progressive -- Index of subjects and languages -- Index of names