I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- The development of an "impersonal" verb in Middle English: the case of behoove -- Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum -- Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales -- The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited -- Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case -- From syntax to discourse: The function of object-verb order in Late Middle English -- Words in -ate and the history of English stress -- Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland -- Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names -- When did Middle English begin? Later than you think! -- The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited -- Stress, survival and change: Old to Middle English -- Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English -- -ing-constructions in Middle English -- Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose -- Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker -- On the beginning and development of the begin to construction -- The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs -- Middle English phonetics: A systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords -- Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English -- Like father (un)like son: a sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family -- Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns? -- Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a > au/_ l{C/#} -- Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift -- Exclamations in Late Middle English -- Index of names -- Index of subjects