List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: Historical Dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy, Rhona Alcorn, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los and Benjamin Molineaux; Part 1: Creating and Mining Digital Resources; 2: A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, Robert Truswell, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson and Joel Wallenberg; 3: Approaching Transition Scots from a Micro-perspective; The Dunfermline Corpus, 1573–1723, Klaus Hofmann; 4: Early Spelling Evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A Corpus-based Approach, Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos and Bettelou Los; Part 2: Segmental Histories; 5: Old and Middle English Spellings for OE hw-, with Special Reference to the ‘qu-’ Type: In Celebration of LAEME, (e)LALME, LAOS and CoNE, Margaret Laing and Roger Lass; 6: The Development of Old English ?: The Middle English Spelling Evidence, Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden; 7: The Development of Old English eo/?o and the Systematicity of Middle English Spelling, Merja Stenroos; 8: Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t??/, /d??/ or [t-?], [d-?]?, Donka Minkova; Part 3: Placing Features in Context; 9: The Predictability of Abbreviation in Older Scots Manuscripts According to Stem final Littera, Daisy Smith; 10: An East Anglian Poem in a London Manuscript? The Date and Dialect of The Court of Love in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19, Ad Putter; 11: ‘He was a good hammer, was he’: Gender as Marker for South-Western Dialects of English. A Corpus-based Study from a Diachronic Perspective, Trinidad Guzmán-González; Index