This volume is a companion to "English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000". The papers reflect the concerns of English historical linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century and the methodologies applied to address them.

1. Addresses; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction (by Fanego, Teresa); 4. Linguistic accommodation: The correspondence between Samuel Johnson and Hester Lynch Thrale (by Bax, Randy C.); 5. Style evolution in the English sermon (by Claridge, Claudia); 6. Lexical bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the past (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 7. Changing documentation in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Sixteenth-century vocabulary as a test case (by Durkin, Philip); 8. A linguistic history of advertising, 1700-1890 (by Gorlach, Manfred); 9. Ebb and flow: A cautionary tale of language change (by Hickey, Raymond); 10. Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin: The history of some confused spellings (by Kay, Christian); 11. When did English begin? (by Lutz, Angelika); 12. What 's afoot with word-final C?: Metrical coherence and the history of English (by McCully, Chris B.); 13. Dan Michel: Fossil or innovator? (by Scahill, John); 14. Historical discourse analysis: Scientific language and changing thought-styles (by Taavitsainen, Irma); 15. Key issues in English etymology (by Vennemann, Theo); 16. The dialectology of 'English' north of the Humber, c.1380-1500 (by Williamson, Keith); 17. Name index; 18. Subject index