Front matter -- Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change / Aitchison, Jean -- Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway / Bull, Tove -- Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausible speculation / Dalton-Puffer, Christiane -- On the origin of Middle and Modern English / Lüdtke, Helmut -- Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English / Danchev, Andrei -- Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it> for common <-eþ, -eth> / Diensberg, Bernhard -- Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collison / G̨asiorowski, Piotr -- An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English / Hickey, Raymond -- Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? / Li, Charles N. -- Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts / Mańczak, Witold -- On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English / Markus, Manfred -- On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian / Marle, Jaap van / Smits, Caroline -- The English double modals: Internal or external change? / Nagle, Stephen J. -- Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax / Posner, Rebecca -- Black-White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America / Schneider, Edgar W. -- Lexico-syntactic modeling across the |