1. List of abbreviations; 2. Introduction (by Markus, Manfred); 3. Corpus linguistics today and tomorrow; 4. Can't see the wood for the trees?: Corpora and the study of Late Modern English (by Beal, Joan C.); 5. Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts: The case for an integrated corpus approach (by Diemer, Stefan); 6. Aspects of language change; 7. The development of compound numerals in English Biblical translations (by Hashimoto, Isao); 8. The complements of causative make in Late Middle English (by Iyeiri, Yoko); 9. The pragmaticalization and intensification of verily, truly and really: A corpus-based study on the developments of three truth-identifying adverbs (by Defour, Tine); 10. Concept-driven semasiology and onomasiology of CLERGY: Focus on the lexicogenesis of pope, bishop and priest (by Lodej, Sylwester); 11. ANGER and TENE in Middle English (by Diller, Hans-Jurgen); 12. Middle and Modern English case studies; 13. The subjunctive vs. modal auxiliaries: Lest-clauses in Late Middle English prose texts (by Kikusawa, Namiko); 14. Some notes on the distribution of the quantifier all in Middle English (by Yanagi, Tomohiro); 15. Interjections in Middle English: Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale" and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (by Sauer, Hans); 16. Why and what in Early Modern English drama (by Lutzky, Ursula); 17. Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English (by Smitterberg, Erik); 18. Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter; 19. The complexity and diversity of the words in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (by Markus, Manfred); 20. Etymology in the English Dialect Dictionary (by Chamson, Emil); 21. Towards an understanding of Joseph Wright's sources: White Kennett's Parochial Antiquities (1695) and the English Dialect Dictionary (by Ruano-Garcia, Javier); 22. The importance of being Janus: Midland speakers and the "North-South Divide" (by Upton, Clive); 23. ... ging uns der ganze alte Dialektbegriff in eine Illusion auf: The deterritorialization of dialects in the 20th and 21st centuries (by Mair, Christian)
