About this Series
The millennial history of the English language still offers a multitude to explore. Elements in the History of English is a forum for showcasing recent ground-breaking research on diachronic and synchronic developments in English. During its history, English not only developed from a synthetic into an analytical language but also conquered the globe to become a world-wide communication tool. Many of te questions generated by such circumstances are still waiting to be answered in modern empirical and language-theoretical terms. For instance: what are the main evolutionary trends in the history of English, and how do they manifest in the development of individual linguistic features? How can various historical registers be used in the study of developments in the history of English? Was it men or women who contributed more to change? What is the role played by ‘written’ and ‘speech-related’ texts in change? These and other exciting puzzles in the story of English make a welcome challenge to those wishing to contribute to the Elements in the History of English. The unique online platform offers a wealth of multimedia support to encourage innovative methodological approaches. Take the advantage of this opportunity and join the enterprise!
Areas of interest
- Periods
- Linguistic levels and domains
- Old English
- Middle English
- Early Middle English
- Late Middle English
- Early Modern English
- Late Modern English
- Standardisation
- Registers (genres, text types) and styles
- Manuscript studies
- Early imprints
Series Editor
Prof. Merja Kytö, Uppsala University
Contact the Editor
merja.kyto@engelska.uu.se
Series Editor Biography
Merja Kytö is Senior Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. Her main research interests include variation and change in the English language, present and past. She specialises in the Early and Late Modern English periods and has done research on English used in Britain and in the early North American colonies. In her research she applies frameworks such as corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, and manuscript studies. Among other things, she is the associate editor of the Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (CUP, 2009), co-author of Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing (CUP, 2010), and co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics (CUP 2016). Her more recent research interests evolve around spoken interaction in the past and developments in Late Modern English, with focus on intensifiers in the Old Bailey courtroom. She is the co-editor-in-chief of Studia Neophilologica and co-editor of the ICAME Journal.
Editorial Board
Anita Auer, Université de Lausanne
Alexander Bergs, Osnabrück University
Laurel J. Brinton, The University of British Columbia
Susan Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield
Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University
Martin Hilpert, Université de Neuchâtel
Bettelou Los, University of Edinburgh
Colette Moore, University of Washington
Matti Peikola, University of Turku
Peter Petré, University of Antwerp
Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Universidade de Vigo