Medieval English and its Heritage

Contents: Jeremy J. Smith: Phonaesthesia, Ablaut and the history of the English demonstratives - Christian Liebl: The A and O of a medieval English sound change: prolegomena to a study of the origins and early geographical diffusion of / / > / / - Julia Schlüter: A small word of great interest: the allomorphy of the indefinite article as a diagnostic of sound change from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries - Philip Durkin: Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED: the benefits of the application of a consistent methodology for the scholarly user - Michael Bilynsky: Getting a diachronic view on synonymy: verbs and deverbatives - Ewa Ciszek: -d m in medieval English - Ferdinand von Mengden: The peculiarities of the OE numeral system - Letizia Vezzosi: From agen to own - Ilse Wischer: Grammaticalisation and language contact in the history of English: the evolution of the progressive form - W. Garrett Mitchener: A mathematical model of the loss of verb-second in Middle English - Päivi Pahta/Arja Nurmi: Code-switching in the Helsinki Corpus: a thousand years of multilingual practices - Tamás Eitler: Audience rules: interspeaker accomodation and intraspeaker syntactic variation in Late Middle English.

The Editors: Nikolaus Ritt, Herbert Schendl, Christiane Dalton-Puffer and Dieter Kastovsky teach at the Department of English at the University of Vienna and have published widely in different areas of English historical linguistics.