| Preface to the Handbook of English Historical Linguistics | 11 |
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| Acknowledgments | 15 |
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| In memoriam | 17 |
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| General abbreviations | 19 |
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| IX. Resources | 23 |
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| 71. Early textual resources | 23 |
| 72. Electronic/online resources | 35 |
| 73. Lexicographic resources | 53 |
| 74. Teaching perspectives | 67 |
| 75. Textbooks | 82 |
| 76. Online resources for teaching | 94 |
| X. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography | 105 |
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| 77. Literature | 105 |
| 78. Music as a language – the history of an idea | 118 |
| 79. Periodization in the history of the English language | 137 |
| 80. Myths of the English language | or, alternative histories of “English” |
| 81. Spoken and written English – orality and literacy | 178 |
| XI. History of English Historical Linguistics | 193 |
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| 82. Overview | 193 |
| 83. The historiography of the English language | 199 |
| 84. North America | 217 |
| 85. Germany and the German-speaking countries | 229 |
| 86. The Netherlands and Belgium | 245 |
| 87. Northern Europe | 258 |
| 88. East-Central and Eastern Europe | 279 |
| 89. Southern Europe | 301 |
| 90. Asia - Minoji Akimoto | 318 |
| XII. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods | 325 |
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| 91. Historical dialectology | 325 |
| 92. Historical sociolinguistics | 342 |
| 93. Historical pragmatics | 361 |
| 94. Information structure and syntax in the history of English | 379 |
| 95. The actuation problem revisited | 394 |
| 96. Corpus linguistics | 413 |
| 97. Frequency and language change | 435 |
| 98. Lexical diffusion | 450 |
| 99. Grammaticalization | 462 |
| 100. Lexicalization | 481 |
| 101. Diachronic change and language acquisition | 503 |
| 102. Generative approaches to English historical linguistics | 517 |
| 103. Construction Grammar | 535 |
| 104. Lexical Functional Grammar | 550 |
| XIII. English in Contact | 563 |
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| 105. German and Dutch | 563 |
| 106. French | 575 |
| 107. Celtic and Celtic Englishes | 591 |
| 108. Latin | 607 |
| 109. Greek | 623 |
| 110. Norse | 628 |
| 111. English in contact with other European languages | 642 |
| 112. Native American Languages | 657 |
| 113. Pidgins and creoles | 671 |
| 114. Middle English creolization | 685 |
| 115. African American English (AAE) early evidence | 697 |
| XIV. Varieties of English | 713 |
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| 116. American English | 713 |
| 117. Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language | 730 |
| 118. Regional varieties of American English | 743 |
| 119. Canadian English in real-time perspective | 762 |
| 120. Standard British English | 783 |
| 121. Received Pronunciation | 803 |
| 122. Estuary English | 817 |
| 123. Regional varieties of British English Christian Langstrof | 832 |
| 124. Scots | 855 |
| 125. English in Ireland | 865 |
| 126. English in Wales | 881 |
| 127. Australian/New Zealand English | 899 |
| 128. Cockney | 917 |
| 129. Diffusion | 935 |
| 130. Dialect contact | 948 |
| 131. Supraregionalization | 964 |
| XV. Second-Language Varieties | 981 |
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| 132. English in India | 981 |
| 133. English in Africa – a diachronic typology | 996 |
| 134. Second-language varieties of English | 1010 |
| 135. English-based Creoles | 1024 |
| 136. Global English | 1039 |
| Index | 1055 |
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