Tracing English through time

In this volume, twenty-six international scholars undertake to "trace English through time" by exploring diverse perspectives of researching English variation and change. The result is a truly kaleidoscopic view of the English language, offering accounts of state-of-the-art research into a broad range of regional and diachronic variation covering the British Isles and North America as well as all periods of the English language, from Old to Present-Day English. Some studies venture even further into future developments of English language use. In all these stages, the multilingual speaker is given particular attention, reflecting the all-pervasive nature of multilingualism, and so a good many studies focus specifically on phenomena of code-switching and bilingual language use.