This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto s concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is...