Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective

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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 millenium and to stimulate research in English historical linguistics. The authors are predominantly US scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of mixed language texts, phonology and metrics.