| A twofold view 'from below' : new perspectives on language histories and historical grammar | p. 3 |
| Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below | |
| "As this leaves me at present" - formulaic usage, politeness and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters | p. 13 |
| 'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834 | p. 31 |
| "Doch mein Mann mochte doch mal wissen..." : a discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence | p. 45 |
| Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia | p. 69 |
| Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters | p. 83 |
| From past to present : change from above - change from below | |
| 'Time and Tyne' : a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English | p. 99 |
| Syntactic surprises in some English letters : the underlying progress of the language | p. 115 |
| YOU and THOU in Early Modern English : cross-linguistic perspectives | p. 129 |
| On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below' | p. 149 |
| The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish | p. 163 |
| A corpus-based study of colloquial 'Flemish' | p. 179 |
| 'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch : a case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers 189 | |
| Language norms and standardization in a view from below | |
| Surinamese Dutch : the development of a unique Germanic language variety | p. 207 |
| "Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans" : speaker agency, identity and resistance in the history of Afrikaans | p. 221 |
| "Deutsch ist eine wurde-lose Sprache" : on the history of a failed prescription | p. 243 |
| To boldly split the infinitive - or not? : prescriptive traditions and current English usage | p. 259 |
| Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of earlier modern Germanic languages | p. 275 |
| Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization | p. 295 |
| Putting standard German to the test : some notes on the linguistic competence of grammar-school students and teachers in the nineteenth century | p. 309 |
| Language choice and language planning | |
| The choice between the German or French language for the German nobility of the late 18th century | p. 333 |
| Flirting at the fringe - the status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium's Areler Land | p. 343 |
| Language and Luxembourgish national identity : ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present | p. 363 |
| The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment - from below' | p. 379 |
| The death of Standard German in 19th-century Budapest : a case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift | p. 405 |
| 1750-1850 : the disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway | p. 423 |
| Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century | p. 437 |
| New data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations | p. 449 |
| Reflections on alternative language histories | |
| Communicative genres as categories of a cultural history of communication | p. 473 |
| Deconstructing episodes in the 'history of English' | p. 495 |
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