Keith Brown is a member of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-editor of the Blackwell Publishing journal, Transactions of the Philological Society. Vivien Law was lately Reader in the History of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She was the author or editor of numerous publications, including Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages (1997).

• Preface viiJean Aitchison 1W. Sidney Allen 14R. E. Asher 28John Bendor-Samuel 43Gillian Brown 53N. E. Collinge 67Joseph Cremona 78David Crystal 91Gerald Gazdar 104M. A. K. Halliday 116Richard Hudson 127John Laver 139Geoffrey Leech 155John Lyons 170Peter Matthews 200Anna Morpungo Davies 213Frank Palmer 228Randolph Quirk 239R. H. Robins 249Neil Smith 262J. L. M. Trim 274Peter Trudgill 286John Wells 297General Index 307