ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Phonology, orthographyOn misinterpreting written materials as evidence for Old English “sound change in progress”1Selected spontaneous phonological processes in the prehistory and history of English: an element-based approachA historical phonology of the consonant-vowel interactions: The case of the English lateralA quantitative analysis of internal spelling variation in George Joye’s 1534 translation of the PsalterPart II: SyntaxElimination of grammatical redundancy in the history of English: The case of negative constructionsInformation packaging effects in Old English scrambled double object constructionsThe development of prepositional absent in Contemporary American English: A corpus-based constructional approachThe partitive genitive with fela and feawe in Old English and Middle EnglishPart III: Morphology and semanticsThe rise of non-morphemic word-formationBorrowing and polysemy: An investigation of French loans in Middle EnglishScientific word-formation in eighteenth-century English