Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Tabula Laudatoria -- Introduction: Heuristics and evidence in studying -- the history of the English language -- Triggering events -- What's new in Old English? -- Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of -- Old English Prose to investigate the syntaxpragmatics interface -- Anglian dialect features in Old English anonymous -- homiletic literature: A survey, with preliminary findings -- The elusive progress of prosodical study -- Fidelity in versification: Modern English -- translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Response to Tom Cable's comments -- Metrical evidence: Did Chaucer translate The -- Romaunt of the Rose? -- Trochees in an iambic meter: Assumptions or -- evidence? -- "Ubbe dubbede him to knith": The scansion of -- Havelok and ME -es, -ed, and -ede -- A response to Tom Cable -- Patterns and productivity -- Borrowed derivational morphology in Late Middle -- English: A study of the records of the London Grocers and -- Goldsmiths -- Fixer-uppers and passers-by: Nominalization of -- verb-particle constructions -- Words and constructions in grammaticalization: The -- end of the English impersonal construction -- Variation in Late Modern English: Making the best -- use of 'bad data' -- English/French bilingualism in nineteenth century -- Lousiana: A social network analysis -- Taking permissible shortcuts? Limited evidence, -- heuristic reasoning and the modal auxiliaries in early Canadian -- English -- 'What strikes the ear' Thomas Sheridan and regional -- pronunciation -- Backmatter