Handbook on the History of English: Rethinking and Extending Approaches and Methods

Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds.
Oxford University Press, 2011

Section I. Language Contact.
Coordinator: Raymond Hickey (Essen University)
Lead chapter. A reassessment of language contact in the history of English (Raymond Hickey)

Contact in the history of English
a) Language contact in the Scandinavian period. (Angelika Lutz, University of Erlangen)
b) Language contact and linguistic attitudes in the later Middle Ages. (Tim Machan, Marquette University)
c) Code-switching in English of the Middle Ages. (Paivi Pahta, University of Tampere)

More recent cases of contact
d) Contact in North American urban contexts. (Charles Boberg, McGill University)
e) Contact in the African arena. (Rajend Mesthrie and Ana Deumert, University of Cape Town)
f) Contact in the Asian arena. (Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim, University of Hong Kong)

Varieties of English world-wide
h) Contact-induced change in English world-wide. (Edgar W. Schneider, University of Regensburg)
i) Second-language varieties of English. (Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University College London)
j) Pidgins and creoles. (Donald Winford, The Ohio State University)

Section II. Socio-Cultural Processes
Coordinators: Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University ).
Lead chapter. Social processes and the history of English. (Jonathan Culpeper and Minna Nevala)

Effects of social change and interaction
a) Language and social change: Ireland. (Tony Crowley, Scripps College, California)
b) Democratisation. (Michael Farrelly, The Open University)
c) Changing attitudes and political correctness. (Geoffrey Hughes, University of Cape Town)
d) Social roles, identities, and networks. (Minna Palander-Collin, University of Helsinki)

Effects of changing attitudes and beliefs
e) Attitudes, prescriptivism and standardization. (Carol Percy, University of Toronto)
f) The perceptual dialectology of English 1600/2000. (Chris Montgomery, Sheffield-Hallam University)

Effects of cultural contexts and change
g) From a Jewish Jesus to an Anglo Jesus: The cultural legacy of English reflected in modern translation of the New Testament. (Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University)
h) Changes in politeness cultures. (Andreas H. Jucker, Zurich University)

Section III. Mass Communication and Technologies
Coordinators: Thomas Kohnen (Cologne University)
Lead chapter. Communication technologies and their impact on language structure and use. (Thomas Kohnen and Christian Mair)

a) Oral technologies throughout the history of English. (Ursula Schaefer, Technische Universiat Dresden)
b) Forms of early mass communication: The religious domain. (Tanja Riltten, University of Cologne)
c) From manuscript to printing: Transformations of genres in the history of English. (Claudia Claridge, University of Duisburg-Essen)
d) The competing demands of popularization vs. economy: Newspaper language in the age of mass literacy. (Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray, Northern Arizona State University)
e) The impact of electronically-mediated communication on language standards and styles. (Naomi Baron, American University)
f) Commodification of language: English as a global community. (Deborah Cameron, Oxford University)
g) Changes in spoken media language. (Jenny Price, Monash University)

Section IV. Evidence
Coordinators: Susan Fitzmaurice (Sheffield University)
Lead chapter. New methods and approaches for the treatment of evidence and witnesses for the history of English. (Susan Fitzmaurice and Jeremy Smith)

a) Evidence from sources prior to 1500. (Carole Hough, University of Glasgow)
i) Coins as evidence. (Philip Shaw, University of Leicester)
b) Evidence from sources after 1500. (Joan Beal, Sheffield University)

c) Pronunciation evidence across the ages, the challenges and opportunities presented by new sources
i) Introduction. (Jeremy Smith, Glasgow University)
ii) Middle English phonology in the digital age: what written corpora can tell us about sound change (Nikolas Ritt, University of Vienna).
iii) Modern English data as evidence for sound-change. (Joan Beal, Sheffield University)
iv) Evidence for sound-change from Scottish corpora. (Wendy Anderson, University of Glasgow)
v) Analyzing the NECTE data as evidence for sound-change. (Karen Corrigan, Newcastle University)
vi) Analyzing the ONZE data as evidence for sound change. (Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury)

d) Editing. (Simon Horobin, Oxford University)
e) Evidence from Surveys and Atlases in the history of English. (William Kretzschmar, University of Georgia)
f) Historical corpora up to the twentieth century. (Merja Kyto, Uppsala University)
g) Statistical clustering techniques in historical English linguistics. (Stefan Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara)
h) Dictionaries, thesauri. (Julie Coleman, University of Leicester)

Section VI. Cycles and continua

Coordinators: Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester University) and Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh)
Lead chapter. Cycles and continua: on unidirectionality and gradualness in language change. (Ricardo Bermudez-Otero and Graeme Trousdale)

a) Quantitative evidence for a feature-based account of grammaticalisation in English: Jepsersen's Cycle. (Phillip Wallage, Northumbria University)
b) The syntax-lexicon continuum. (Cristiano Broccias, University of Genoa)
b) Chain shifts. (Aaron Dinkin, University of Pennsylvania)
c) Non-rhoticity. (Jennifer Hay and Alhana Clendon, University of Canterbury)
d) Lenition phenomena. (Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh)
e) Continua and clines in the development of new Englishes. (Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London; Caroline R. Wiltshire, University of Florida at Gainesville)

Section VII. Interfaces with information structure
Coordinators: Roland Hinterhozl (Humboldt University)
Lead chapter. The role of information structure and prosody in syntactic change. (Roland Hinterhozl and Ans van Kemenade)

a) The loss of V2: Syntax and information structure. (Ans van Kemenade, Radboud University)
c) Stress clash and word order changes in the left periphery in OE and ME. (Augustin Speyer, University of Marburg)
d) From a multifunctional first constituent to a multifunctional subject. (Bettelou Los and Gea Dreschler, Radboud University)
e) The rise of clefts as a repair structure after the loss of multifunctional first position. (Bettelou Los and Erwin Komen, Radboud University).
f) Rethinking the relationship between VO order, clause type and information status in Old English. (Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk, University of York)
g) The impact of focusing / defocusing on word order in OE and OHG, and on changes at the right periphery in the middle periods (Svetlana Petrova, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)

Section VIII. Typology and Typological Change

Coordinator: Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg University)
Lead chapter. Typology and typological change in English historical linguistics. (Bernd Kortmann)

a) The drift in English towards invariable word order from a typological and Germanic perspective. (John Hawkins, Cambridge University and University of California, Davis)
b) Typological hierarchies and markedness in the history of English. (Mikko Laitinen, University of Jyvaskyla)
c) Typological changes in the English lexicon. (Alexander Haselow, University of Hamburg)
d) Grammaticalization in non-standard varieties of English and English-related pidgins and creoles. (Agnes Schneider, Freiburg University)
f) Analyticity and syntheticity in English synchrony and diachrony. (Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Freiburg University)
g) Branching and bursts: Insights from a new phylogeny of English(es). (Soren Wichmann and Matthias Urban, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)