Table of Contents

Section 1: Linguistics and philology

Introduction: Linguistics and philology Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w] Donka Minkova

An essay in historical sociolinguistics?: On Donka Minkova's "Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w]" i>Lesley Milroy

A brief response Donka Minkova

Why we should not believe in short diphthongs David L. White

Extended forms (Streckformen) in English Anatoly Liberman

Linguistic change in words one owns: How trademarks become "generic" Ronald R. Butters and Jennifer Westerhaus

Section 2: Corpus- and text-based studies

Introduction: Corpus- and text-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network Susan M. Fitzmaurice

Investigating the expressive progressive: On Susan Fitzmaurice's "The meanings and uses of the progressive construction in an early eighteenth-century English network" Erik Smitterberg

A brief response Susan M. Fitzmaurice

Modal use across registers and time Douglas Biber

The need for good texts: The case of Henry Machyn's Day Book, 1550-1563 Richard W. Bailey

The perils of firsts: Dating Rawlinson MS Poet. 108 and tracing the development of monolingual English lexicons Ian Lancashire

Section 3: Constraint-based studies

Introduction: Constraint-based studies Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter Geoffrey Russom

Old English poetry and the alliterative revival: On Geoffrey Russom's "The evolution of Middle English alliterative meter" Robert D. Fulk

A brief response Geoffrey Russom

A central metrical prototype for English iambic tetrameter verse: Evidence from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines Xingzhong Li

Early English clause structure change in a stochastic optimality theory setting Brady Z. Clark

The role of perceptual contrast in Verner's Law Olga Petrova

Section 4: Dialectology

Introduction: Dialectology Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons

Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble

Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble's "Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English" Guy Bailey

A brief response Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble

Vowel merger in west central Indiana: A naughty, knotty problem Betty S. Phillips

The spread of negative contraction in early English Richard M. Hogg

About the Author

Anne Curzan is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Kimberly Emmons is Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.