| Preface | ||
| The development of an "impersonal" verb in Middle English: The case of behoove | 1 | |
| Double trouble: Geminate versus simplex graphs in the Ormulum | 23 | |
| Language and style in additions to The Canterbury Tales | 59 | |
| The Middle English creolization hypothesis revisited | 79 | |
| Infinitive marking in Late Middle English: Transitivity and changes in the English system of case | 109 | |
| From syntax to discourse: The function of object-verb order in Late Middle English | 135 | |
| Words in -ate and the history of English stress | 157 | |
| Assessing the relative status of languages in medieval Ireland | 181 | |
| Using the future to predict the past: Old English dialectology in the light of Middle English place-names | 207 | |
| When did Middle English begin? Later than you think! | 221 | |
| The Old English Anglian/Saxon boundary revisited | 271 | |
| Stress, survival and change: Old to Middle English | 283 | |
| Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English | 301 | |
| -ing-constructions in Middle English | 335 | |
| Concessive clauses in Chaucer's prose | 351 | |
| Middle English nonrestrictive expository apposition with an explicit marker | 373 | |
| On the beginning and development of the begin to construction | 403 | |
| The Peterborough Chronicle diphthongs | 429 | |
| Middle English phonetics: A systematic survey including notes on Irish and Welsh loanwords | 439 | |
| Quasi-impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English | 469 | |
| Like father (un)like son: A sociolinguistic approach to the language of the Cely family | 489 | |
| Whatever happened to the Middle English indefinite pronouns? | 513 | |
| Mutation, variation and selection in phonological evolution: A sketch based on the case of Late Middle English a > au/รท1{C/#} | 531 | |
| Handmade tales: The implications of linguistic variation in two early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales | 551 | |
| Middle (and Old) English prerequisites for the Great Vowel Shift | 561 | |
| Exclamations in Late Middle English | 573 | |
| Index of names | 609 | |
| Index of subjects | 617 |
