New in Paperback!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 millennium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of mixed language texts, phonology and metrics.From the contentsI. MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVESFrom etymological to historical pragmaticsElizabeth Closs TraugottMixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguisticsHerbert SchendlDialectology and the history of the English languageWilliam KretzchmarOrigin unknownAnatoly LibermanIssues for a new history of English prosodyThomas CableChaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong LiA rejoinder to Youmans and LiThomas CableII. PHONOLOGY AND METRICSThe history of English rBlaine EricksonVowel variation in English rhymeKristin HansonLexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound changeBetty PhillipsDating Criteria for Old English poemsGeoffrey RussomHow much shifting actually occured in the historical English vowel shift?Robert StockwellRestoration of /a/ revisitedDavid WhiteIII. MORPHOSYNTAX / SEMANTICSPragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in early Modern EnglishMaurizio GottiExplaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in EnglishEdward KeenanWord order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbsAns van KemenadeThe “have” perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?Jeong-Hoon LeeReporting direct speech in early Modern slander depositionsColette MooreThe emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguisticsBenji Wald / Lawrence BessermanIV. ENVOYA thousand years of the history of EnglishRichard BaileyTo sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.com.To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbHPostfach 434372774 Reutlingen, GermanyFax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33E-mail: deGruyter@s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico:Walter de Gruyter, Inc.200 Saw Mill River RoadHawthorne, NY 10532, USAFax: +1 (914) 747-1326E-mail: cs@degruyterny.comPlease visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.degruyter.com