Adams Michael, Brinton Laurel J., Fulk Robert Dennis (eds.). Studies in the History of the English Language VI. Evidence and Method in Histories of English

Mouton De Gruyter, 2014. — 344 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 85). — ISBN: 9783110345919, ASIN 3110345919.The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume-which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora-challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.