Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- English Grammar -- Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change -- Whatever Happened to English Sluicing -- Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases -- Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English -- Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English -- Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage -- English Lexicon -- The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations) -- From Germanic 'fence' to 'urban settlement': On the Semantic Development of English town -- Celtic Influence on English: A Re-Evaluation -- When arīven Came to England: Tracing Lexical Re-Structuring by Borrowing in Middle and Early Modern English. A Case Study -- Reexamining Orthographic Practice in the Auchinleck Manuscript Through Study of Complete Scribal Corpora -- How Medium Shapes Language Development: The Emergence of Quotative Re Online -- Backmatter