Analysing older English

General introduction David Denison, Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, Chris McCully and Emma Moore, with Donka Minkova Part I. Metrics and Onomastics in Older English: 1. Introduction Chris McCully and David Denison 2. What explanatory metrics has to say about the history of English function words Geoffrey Russom 3. To thaere fulan flode of thaere fulan flode: on becoming a name in Easton and Winchester, Hampshire Richard Coates 4. Notes on some interfaces between place-name material and linguistic theory Peter Kitson Part II. Writing Practices in Older English: 5. Introduction Chris McCully 6. Anglian features in late West Saxon prose R. D. Fulk 7. 'ea' in early Middle English: from diphthong to digraph Roger Lass and Margaret Laing Part III. Dialects in Older English: 8. Introduction: on the impossibility of historical sociolinguistics Emma Moore 9. Levelling and enregisterment in northern dialects of late modern English Joan Beal 10. Quantitative historical dialectology April McMahon and Warren Maguire 11. Reconstructing syntactic continuity and change in early modern English regional dialects: the case of who Terttu Nevalainen Part IV. Sound Change in Older English: 12. Introduction: when a knowledge of history is a dangerous thing Ricardo Bermudez-Otero 13. Syllable weight and the weak-verb paradigms in Old English Donka Minkova 14. How to weaken one's consonants, strengthen one's vowels, and remain English at the same time Nikolaus Ritt 15. Degemination in English, with special reference to the Middle English period Derek Britton Part V. Syntax in Older English: 16. Introduction David Denison 17. The status of the postposed 'and-adjective' construction in Old English: attributive or predicative? Olga Fischer 18. DO with weak verbs in early modern English Anthony Warner.