The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volu

This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function withi

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the tradi

This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, a