This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant li

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, a

This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.

Even before the Helsinki Corpus was published, Spain had a good amount of Historical English researchers, such as the group directed by Teresa Fanego in Santiag