'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed'

Contents: Javier Pérez-Guerra/Dolores González-Álvarez/Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso/Esperanza Rama-Martínez: 'Of varying language and opposing creed': Five first details are being depicted - Joan C. Beal: 'To explain the present': nineteenth-century evidence for 'recent' changes in English pronunciation - Laurel J. Brinton: What's more : the development of pragmatic markers in the modern period - Hubert Cuyckens/Hendrik De Smet: For...to -infinitives from Early to Late Modern English - Stefan Dollinger: The importance of demography for the study of historical Canadian English: three examples from the Corpus of Early Ontario English - Radoslaw Dylewski: Forms of tri-alternant verbs in early American writings (1662-1720) - Teresa Fanego: Drift and the development of sentential complements in British and American English from 1700 to the present day - Victorina González-Díaz: Worser and lesser in Modern English - Bernd Kortmann/Susanne Wagner: A fresh look at Late Modern English dialect syntax - María José López-Couso: Auxiliary and negative cliticisation in Late Modern English - Meiko Matsumoto: The historical development of take/have a walk - Isabel Moskowich/Begoña Crespo: Presenting the Coruña Corpus: a collection of samples for the historical study of English scientific writing - Paloma Núñez Pertejo: Aspects of the use of the progressive in the eighteenth century - Elena Orduna Nocito: The semantic field of 'manners' in the eighteenth century: a cognitive approach - Päivi Pahta/Arja Nurmi: 'What we do cón amore ': structures of code-switching in eighteenth-century personal letters - Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade/Fátima María Faya Cerqueiro: Saying please in Late Modern English.

The Editors: The editors are associate professors at the Department of English, University of Vigo (Spain).