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A wide-ranging treatment of the historical background to English with an emphasis on language contact and its effects.

Laura Wright is Professor of the History of the English Language at the University of Cambridge. Among her recent publications are The Multilingual Origins of Standard English (2020), Sunnyside: A Sociolinguistic History of British House Names (2020), The Social Life of Words (2023) and English Grammar for Literature Students (2024).

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).