List of Contributors
Preface
1. Language, history and Language and History
2. The end of linear narrative? Reflections on the historiography of English
3. History and comparative philology
4. Word-stories: etymology as history
5. Language: object or event? The integration of language and life
6. Indeterminacy of meaning and semantic change
7. On the cusp: Antoine Meillet as a sociologist of language
8. ‘The grammatical being called a nation’: history and the construction of political and linguistic nationalism
9. How to make history with words
10. Talking about what happened
11. Part of the meaning/history of euro: integrational corpus linguistics 12. Language and prehistory
13. Bridges to history: biomechanical constraints in language