Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Phonetic Symbols and Orthography -- A Timeline for HEL -- Part I: Introduction -- 1: History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today -- 2: History of the History of the English Language: How Has the Subject Been Studied? -- 3: Essential Linguistics -- Part II: Linguistic Survey -- 4: Phonology: Segmental Histories -- 5: History of English Morphology -- 6: History of English Syntax -- 7: A History of the English Lexicon -- 8: History of English Prosody -- Part III: English Semantics and Lexicography -- 9: Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them? -- 10: English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri -- 11: Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary -- Part IV: Pre-history of English -- 12: English as an Indo-European Language -- 13: English as a Germanic Language -- Part V: English in History: England and America -- Section 1: Old English in History (ca. 450-1066) -- 14: Early Old English (up to 899) -- 15: Late Old English (899-1066) -- 16: Topics in Old English Dialects -- Section 2: Middle English in History (1066-1485) -- 17: Early Middle English (1066-ca. 1350) -- 18: Late Middle English (ca. 1350-1485) -- 19: Varieties of Middle English -- Section 3: Early Modern English in History (1485-1660) -- 20: Early Modern English (1485-1660) -- 21: Varieties of Early Modern English -- Section 4: Modern British English in History (1660-present) -- 22: British English in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1830) -- 23: British English Since 1830 -- 24: The Rise of Received Pronunciation -- Section 5: American English in History -- 25: American English to 1865 -- 26: American English Since 1865 -- 27: American English Dialects -- Section 6: Topics in History -- 28: Early Modern English Print Culture -- 29: Issues of Gender in Modern English.

30: Class, Ethnicity, and the Formation of "Standard English" -- 31: The Transplantation of American English in Philippine Soil -- 32: English, Latin, and the Teaching of Rhetoric -- 33: English in Mass Communications: News Discourse and the Language of Journalism -- Part VI: English in History: English Outside England and the United States -- Section 1: British Isles and Ireland -- 34: English in Wales -- 35: English in Scotland -- 36: English in Ireland -- Section 2: English in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- 37: English in Canada -- 38: Australian and New Zealand English -- Section 3: Colonial and Post-Colonial English -- 39: South Asian English -- 40: English in the Caribbean -- 41: English in Africa -- Part VII: Literary Languages -- 42: The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition -- 43: "In swich englissh as he kan": Chaucer's Literary Language -- 44: Shakespeare's Literary Language -- 45: Jane Austen's Literary English -- 46: Joyce's English -- 47: Faulkner's Language -- 48: Twixt the Twain: East-West in Rushdie's Zubaan-Tongue -- 49: Toni Morrison: The Struggle for the Word -- Part VIII: Issues in Present-Day English -- 50: Migration and Motivation in the Development of African American Vernacular English -- 51: Latino Varieties of English -- 52: Teaching English to Native Speakers: The Subject Matter of Composition (1970-2005) -- 53: Earning as well as Learning a Language: English and the Post-colonial Teacher -- 54: Creoles and Pidgins -- 55: World Englishes in World Contexts -- Part IX: Further Approaches to Language Study -- 56: Style and Stylistics -- 57: Corpus-Based Linguistic Approaches to the History of English -- 58: Sociolinguistics -- 59: Cognitive Linguistics -- Glossary of Linguistic Terms -- Index.