1. Preface; 2. At the crossroads of language change, variation, and contact (by Pfenninger, Simone E.); 3. PART I: Language change; 4. Knitting and splitting information: Medial placement of linking adverbials in the history of English (by Lenker, Ursula); 5. The order of adverbials of time and place in Old English (by Chrambach, Susanne); 6. The demise of a preterite-present verb: Why was unnan lost? (by Wojtys, Anna); 7. Gradience in an abrupt change: Stress shift in English disyllabic noun-verb pairs (by Phillips, Betty S.); 8. Vowels before /r/ in the history of English (by Hickey, Raymond); 9. PART II: Language variation; 10. "Pained the eye and stunned the ear": Language ideology and the progressive passive in the nineteenth century (by Anderwald, Lieselotte); 11. Watching as-clauses in Late Modern English (by Broccias, Cristiano); 12. Colloquialization and "decolloquialization": Phrasal verbs in formal contexts, 1650-1990 (by Rodriguez-Puente, Paula); 13. Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750-1835): Approaching linguistic diversity in Late Modern English (by Laitinen, Mikko); 14. New-dialect formation in medieval Ireland: A corpus-based study of Irish English pre-modal verbs (by Hattum, Marije van); 15. Tracing uses of will and would in Late Modern British and Irish English (by Ronan, Patricia); 16. PART III: Variation and change in contact situations; 17. The subjunctive mood in Philippine English: A diachronic analysis (by Collins, Peter); 18. Revisiting a millennium of migrations: Contextualizing Dutch/Low-German influence on English dialect lexis (by Chamson, Emil); 19. or : A dilemma of the Middle English scribal practice (by Welna, Jerzy); 20. Index