This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of bound

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and t

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguis

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians

Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) hav