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

Volume II deals with the Middle English period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyzes developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the

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

The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges chronologically fr

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