2015 Books

Auer, Anita, Daniel Schreier and Richard J. Watts, eds. 2015. Letter Writing and Language Change. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea, eds. 2015. Diachronic Construction Grammar. (Constructional Approaches to Language 18). John Benjamins. [More info]

Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl, eds. 2015. Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 5). John Benjamins. [More info]

Burling, Robbins. 2015. Spellbound: Untangled English Spelling. Equinox Publishing. [More info]

Cawdrey, Robert, with an introduction by John Simpson. 2015. The First English Dictionary 1604. Bodleian Library. [More info]

Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo and Javier Calle-Martín, eds. 2015. Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change. (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 47). Peter Lang. [More info]

Crystal, David. 2015. Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation. St. Martin's Press. [More info]

Culpeper, Jonathan. 2015. History of English. 3rd ed. Routledge. [More info]

Delabastita, Dirk and Ton Hoenselaars, eds. 2015. Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. (Benjamins Current Topics 73). John Benjamins. [More info]

Dossena, Marina, ed. 2015. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 4). John Benjamins. [More info]

Dubrow, Heather. 2015. Deixis in the Early Modern English Lyric: Unsettling Spatial Anchors Like "Here," "This," "Come". Palgrave Pivot. [More info]

Furiassi, Cristiano and Henrik Gottlieb, eds. 2015. Pseudo-English: Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe. (Language Contact and Bilingualism 9). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Gent, B. E., with an introduction by John Simpson. 2015. The First English Dictionary of Slang. Bodleian Library. [More info]

Kaita, Kosuke. Modal Auxiliaries from Late Old to Early Middle English: With Special Reference to agan, sculan, and motan. Utz Verlag Gmbh. [More info]

Kay, Christian and Kathryn Allan. 2015. English Historical Semantics. (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced). Edinburgh University Press. [More info]

Kazmierski, Kamil. 2015. Vowel-Shifting in the English Language: An Evolutionary Account. (Topics in English Linguistics 88). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Kerremans, Daphné. 2015. A Web of New Words: A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms. (English Corpus Linguistics 15). Peter Lang. [More info]

Lerer, Seth. 2015. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. 2nd rev. ed. Columbia University Press. [More info]

Los, Bettelou. 2015. A Historical Syntax of English. (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced). Edinburgh University Press. [More info]

Marsden, Richard. 2015. The Cambridge Old English Reader. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Moore, Erin. 2015. That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says about Us. Gotham Books. [More info]

Richards, Kel. 2015. The Story of Australian English. NewSouth Books. [More info]

Romero-Barranco, Jesús. 2015. The Late Middle English Version of Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS 290 (ff. 1r-41v). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More info]

Schulte, Marion. 2015. The Semantics of Derivational Morphology A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation of the Suffixes -age and -ery in English. Gunter Narr. [More info]

Shaw, Philip, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers & Peter Sundkvist, eds. 2015. From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today. Stockholm University Press. [More info]

Tanabe, Harumi and John Scahill, eds. 2015. Sawles Warde and the Wooing Group: Parallel Texts with Notes and Wordlists. (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 48). Peter Lang. [More info]

Toupin, Fabienne and Brian Lowrey, eds. Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More info]

Trips, Carola. English Syntax in Three Dimensions: History - Synchrony - Diachrony. Mouton de Gruyter. [More info]

Urban, Mateusz. 2015. The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English Lexicography: Lexemes Pertaining to Material Culture. Jagiellonian University Press. [More info]

Yachnin, Paul, ed. 2015. Shakespeare's World of Words. Bloomsbury Publishing. [More info]

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2015. Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement in 1500-1900. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]