1 INTRODUCTION&Richard M.Hogg

1.1 Political history and language history

1.2 Ecclesiastical history and language history

1.3 Literary history and language history

1.4 The nature of the evidence

Further reading

2 THE PLACE OF ENGLISH IN GERMANIC AND INDO-EUROPEAN&Alfred Bammesberger

2.1 Language change and historical linguistics

2.2 The Germanic languages

2.3 The Indo-European languages

2.4 Historical phonology

2.5 Historical morphology

2.6 Syntax

2.7 The lexicon

Further reading

3 PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY&Richard M.Hogg

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Orthography

3.3 Phonology

3.4 Morphology

Further reading

4 SYNTAX&Elizabeth Closs Traugott

4.1 General background

4.2 Noun phrases

4.3 Verbal groups

4.4 Case assignment and the status of subject and object

4.5 Complex sentences

4.6 Word order and the order of clauses

4.7 Summary of changes

Further reading

5 SEMANTICS AND VOCABULARY&Dieter Kastovsky

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Foreign influence

5.3 The stratification of the Old English vocabulary

5.4 Word-formation

5.5 Semantics

Further reading

6 OLD ENGLISH DIALECTS&Thomas E.Toon

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Old English dialects：origins and sources

6.3 Orthographic and phonological variation

6.4 Variation and dialectology

Further reading

7 ONOMASTICS&Cecily Clark

7.1 General principles

7.2 Anthroponymy

7.3 Toponymy

Further reading

8 LITERARY LANGUAGE&Malcolm R.Godden

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Poetry

8.3 Prose

Further reading

Glossary of linguistic terms

Bibliography

Primary sources and texts

Secondary sources

Index