Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Grammar - discourse - context: Grammatical variation and change and the usage-based perspective -- Contextualizing Old English noun phrases -- Syntax, text type, genre and authorial voice in Old English: A data-driven approach -- The intensifier system of the Ormulum and the interplay of micro-level and macro-level contexts in linguistic change -- Constructional change across the lifespan: The nominative and infinitive in early modern writers -- Contextualizing dual-form adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus: An assessment of semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic factors -- Bridging contexts in the reanalysis of naturally as a sentence adverb: A corpus study -- From parataxis to amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English -- The role of context in the entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes -- Paradigms, host classes, and ancillariness: A comparison of three approaches to grammatical status -- The motivated unmotivated: Variation, function and context -- Grammar in context: On the role of hypercharacterization in language variation and change -- List of contributors -- Index