This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of bound

The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to l

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and t

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of st

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians