The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters

Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research h

This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing i

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data.