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| Introduction:The Time Periods of English | |
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| Language Change | |
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| Sources of Information on Language Change | |
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| Linguistic Preliminaries | |
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| The Sounds of English, and Symbols Used to Describe Them:Consonants | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Structure of The Book | |
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| The Pre-History of English:Timeline of Events | |
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| The Indo-European Period | |
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| The Indo-Europeans and Linguistic Relatedness:The Beginnings | |
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| The Development of Historical Linguistics | |
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| Genetic Relatedness | |
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| Linguistic Developments | |
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| The Indo-European Language Family:Family Tree Relationships | |
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| The Indo-European Family | |
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| Indo-Iranian | |
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| Indic | |
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| Iranian | |
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| Armenian | |
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| Albanian | |
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| Balto-Slavonic | |
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| Slavonic | |
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| Baltic | |
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| Hellenic | |
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| Italic | |
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| Celtic | |
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| Brythonic | |
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| Goidelic | |
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| Germanic | |
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| East Germanic | |
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| North Germanic | |
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| West Germanic | |
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| Low Germanic | |
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| High Germanic | |
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| Yiddish | |
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| From Indo-European to Germanic:Prosody | |
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| The Consonant System: Sound Shifts | |
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| Grimm''s Law | |
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| Verner''s Law | |
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| The Second Consonant Shift | |
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| Possible Explanations For The High German (Second) Sound Shift | |
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| The Vowel System | |
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| Morphology | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Lexicon | |
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| Semantics | |
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| Indo-European/Germanic Texts | |
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| Neogrammarians, Structuralists and Contemporary Linguistic Models | |
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| Typological Classification:Universals | |
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| Morphological Typology | |
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| Sociolinguistic Focus | |
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| The Indo-European Tribes and The Spread of Language | |
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| Language Contact and Language Change: Archaeological Linguistics:Language Contact | |
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| Archaeological Linguistics | |
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| Old English 450-1100:Timeline of Events | |
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| The Old English Period | |
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| Social and Political History:Britain Before The English | |
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| The Anglo-Saxon Invasions | |
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| Anglo-Saaxon Influence | |
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| Scandinavian Influence | |
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| Linguistic Developments: The Sounds, Structure and Typology of Old English:The Structure of Old English | |
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| Oe Consonants | |
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| Vowels: From Germanic to Old English | |
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| Old English Vowels | |
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| Old English Gender | |
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| Inflection In Old English | |
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| The Noun | |
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| The Adjective | |
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| Oe Personal Pronouns | |
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| The Old English Verb | |
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| Strong Verbs | |
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| Weak Verbs | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Old English Syntax | |
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| The Use of The Cases | |
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| Word Order | |
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| Old English Vocabulary | |
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| Word Formation | |
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| Linguistic/Literary Achievements | |
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| Texts | |
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| Prose | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Dialects of Old English | |
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| Sociolinguistic Focus:Language Contact | |
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| Latin and Celtic | |
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| The Scandinavians | |
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| The Character of Scandinavian Loan Words | |
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| Middle English:Timeline of Events | |
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| The Middle English Period | |
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| Social and Political History | |
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| Politcal History : The Norman Conquest to Edward I | |
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| Social History | |
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| The Establishment of Towns and Burghs and The Beginnings of Social Stratification | |
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| Linguistic Developments: Middle English Sounds and Structure, With Particular Emphasis on The Breakdown of The Inflectional System and Its Linguistic Typological Implications:Major Changes to The Sound System | |
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| The Consonants | |
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| Consonant Changes From Old to Middle English | |
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| The Vowels In Stressed Syllables | |
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| Vowels In Unstressed Syllables | |
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| Lengthening and Shortening | |
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| Summary Table of Vowel Changes From Old to Middle English | |
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| The Formation of Middle English Diphthongs | |
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| Major Morphological Changes From Old to Middle English | |
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| Loss of Inflections | |
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| Other Changes In The Morphological System | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Middle English Syntax | |
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| The Lexicon: Loan Words From French | |
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| Two French Sources | |
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| Middle English Dialects:Linguistic/Literary Achievements | |
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| Middle English Literature | |
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| Language | |
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| Genre | |
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| Sociolinguistic Focus: Social Stratification, Multilingualism and Dialect Variation: Language Contact | |
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| The Myth of Middle English Creolisation:English Re-established | |
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| Language and The Rise of The Middle Class | |
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| The Development of Standard English | |
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| The Evolution of Me ''Standard'' English | |
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| The Question of Middle English Creolisation: Myth? | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Pidgins and Creoles In England? | |
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| Thomason and Kaufman and The Arguments For and Against Creolisation In Middle English | |
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| On The Sociolinguistic History of /H/-Dropping In English | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Early Modern English:Timeline of Events | |
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| The Early Modern English Period | |
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| Social and Political History:Historical and Social Background | |
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| Internal Stability and Colonial Expansion | |
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| Linguistic Developments: The Variable Character of Early Modern English:Phonolgy | |
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| Consonants | |
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| Vowels | |
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| The Great Vowel Shift | |
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| Mor | |