英語史の正統的トピックに加えて、計量的研究（Stefan Th. Gries）、生成文法（Elly van Gelderen）、文法化（Elizabeth Traugott）、構文文法（Graeme Trousdale）、社会言語学（Peter Trudgill）などの著名研究者が結集。英語学全般で幅広く利用できる斯界の決定版リサーチマップ。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2016. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others.