Paloma Núñez-Pertejo is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.María José López-Couso is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.Belén Méndez-Naya is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.Javier Pérez-Guerra is a Full Professor in English at the University of Vigo, Spain.

• ForewordIntroduction (Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; María José López-Couso, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Belén Méndez-Naya, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Javier Pérez-Guerra, University of Vigo, Spain)Part I: Tensioning the system1. Prosodic templates in English idiom and fixed expressions, Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany)2. Word-search as word-formation? The case of uh and um, Gunnel Tottie (University of Zurich, Switzerland)3. Demonstratives licensed by cultural co-presence, Ryan B. Doran (University of Regina, Canada) and Gregory Ward (Northwestern University, USA)4. The fall and rise of English any, Nikolaus Ritt, Andreas Baumann and Christina Prömer (University of Vienna, Austria)5. Revisiting ‘it-extraposition’: The historical development of constructions with matrices (it)/(there) be + NP followed by a complement clause, Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven, Belgium) and An Van Linden (University of Liège, Belgium)6. On grammatical change and linguistic environments, Bert Cornillie (KU Leuven, Belgium)7. Grammaticalizing adverbs of English: the case of still, Diana Lewis (University of Aix-Marseille, France)Part II: Synchronic and diachronic variation8. How British is Gibraltar English? Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler and Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)9. Singular THEY in Asian Englishes: A case of linguistic democratization?, Lucía Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)10. It is important that mandatives (should) be studied across different World Englishes and from a construction grammar perspective, Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich, Switzerland).11. The stative progressive in Singapore English: a panchronic perspective, Debra Ziegeler and Christophe Lenoble (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France)Index

The contributions in this innovative volume by leading scholars in English Linguistics explore the fascinating ‘tensions’ that occur at the boundaries of the traditional linguistic domains of syntax, morphology, semantics/pragmatics and phonetics/phonology from diachronic, synchronic and cross-varietal perspectives. Highly recommended.