This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts.

With a clear focus on English, chapters in the volume showcase a broad range of digital methods and approaches that can contribute to advancing the study of historical linguistics. Visualisation tools and corpus-linguistic techniques are part of the methodologies included in the volume.The chapters present empirically based research, and discuss theoretical aspects that emphasise how digitalisation is changing our analysis of different domains of language, going from phonology, to specific grammatical/morphosyntactic and lexical features, to discourse-related issues more broadly.

This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of the English language, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities.