Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. The early Middle English scribe: Sprach er wie er schrieb? (by Laing, Margaret); 4. Essex/Suffolk scribes and their language in fifteenth-century London (by Matheson, Lister M.); 5. Middle English word geography: Methodology and applications illustrated (by Linares, Maria Jose Carrillo); 6. Northern Middle English: Towards telling the full story (by Cuesta, Julia Fernandez); 7. The origins of the Northern Subject Rule (by Haas, Nynke de); 8. Dynamic dialectology and social networks (by Ogura, Mieko); 9. The Celtic hypothesis hasn't gone away: New perspectives on old debates (by Filppula, Markku); 10. On the trail of "intolerable Scoto-Hibernic jargon": Ulster English, Irish English and dialect hygiene in William Carleton's Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry (First Series, 1830) (by McCafferty, Kevin); 11. Exceptions to sound change and external motivation (by Hickey, Raymond); 12. Index of subjects