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Part 1 Old to Middle English period; the difficulty of establishingborrowings between Old English and the Continental West Germaniclanguages, E.G. Stanley; Wulf revisited: the problem of runicsignatures, Roger Lass; Snuck: the development of irregular Preteriteforms, Richard Hogg; ambiguity on two levels: a study in negation inChaucer, Sonia Baghdikian; goodbye to all "that": the history andpresent behaviour of optional "that", Joan Beal; the rise of the "forNP to V" construction: an explanation, Olga Fischer; negation inShakespeare, N.F. Blake; Englishmen and their moods: Renaissancegrammar and the English verb, John Reed. Part 2 Middle to modernperiod; the great vowel-shift and other vowel-shifts, John Frankis;thematic genetives, Noel Osselton; the discourse properties of thecriminal statute, Michael Hoey; varietas delectat: forms and functionsof English world-wide; "talking proper": schooling and theestablishment of English "received pronunciation", John Honey; themethods of urban linguistic surveys, Graham Nixon; a bibliography ofBarbara Strang, Richard Bailey.