Javier Ruano-García studied English Philology at the University of Salamanca, where he graduated in 2003. He completed his MA in English linguistics in 2005 with a dissertation on seventeenth-century Lancashire English, and received his doctorate from the University of Salamanca three years afterwards. Both his MA and his Ph.D. dissertations have been awarded the prize for outstanding achievement. He has lectured in the English Department of the University of Salamanca since 2008, and is also a member of the research project The Salamanca Corpus, headed by Dr. María F. García-Bermejo Giner and Dr. Pilar Sánchez-García. His main research interests include English diachronic dialectology, literary dialects and dialect literature, dialect lexi-cography and lexicology.

• Contents: Representations of the North in Early Modern English literature: sources for linguistic analysis – The Salamanca Corpus – Lexicographical sources for the study of Early Modern northern words: data and problems of analysis – Northern and non-northern words used in the literary representations of the North – Etymological, morphological and semantic characteristics of the words recorded – Quantitative investigation into the lexical di alect data of the corpus texts – Lexicological and lexicographical potential of the corpus data – Diachronic profile of the words gathered.