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

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

Unlike other histories of the English language, this introduction cuts away traditional divisions into old, middle and modern English to chart the rise of and c