Donka Minkova is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA. Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus at UCLA, USA.

• I. MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVESFrom etymological to historical pragmaticsElizabeth Closs TraugottMixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguisticsHerbert SchendlDialectology and the history of the English languageWilliam KretzchmarOrigin unknownAnatoly LibermanIssues for a new history of English prosodyThomas CableChaucer: Folk poet or littérateur?Gilbert Youmans / Xingzhong LiA rejoinder to Youmans and LiThomas Cable II. PHONOLOGY AND METRICSOn the development of English rBlaine EricksonVowel variation in English rhymeKristin HansonLexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound changeBetty PhillipsDating criteria for Old English poemsGeoffrey RussomHow much shifting actually occured in the historical English vowel shift?Robert StockwellRestoration of /a/ revisitedDavid White III. MORPHOSYNTAX / SEMANTICSPragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern EnglishMaurizio GottiExplaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in EnglishEdward KeenanWord order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbsAns van KemenadeThe "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect?Jeong-Hoon LeeReporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositionsColette MooreThe emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguisticsBenji Wald and Lawrence Besserman IV. ENVOYA thousand years of the history of EnglishRichard Bailey