Introduction : a history of English / Lynda Mugglestone
Preliminaries : before English / Terry Hoad
Beginnings and transitions : Old English / Susan Irvine
Contacts and conflicts : Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend
Middle English
dialects and diversity / Marilyn Corrie
From middle to early modern English / Jeremy Smith
Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon
Mapping change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen
The babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank
English at the onset of the normative tradition / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
English in the nineteenth century / Lynda Mugglestone
Modern regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton
English among the languages / Richard W. Bailey
English world-wide in the twentieth century / Tom McArthur
Into the twenty-first century / David Crystal.