Acknowledgements

I would like to thank John Benjamins and the editors of the series Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, Terttu Nevalainen and Marijke van der Wal, for their enthusiastic support and thorough editorial work. My thanks also go to the many colleagues and scholars who have generously given me feedback on draft chapters of the book: Richard Ingham, Jonas Keller, Lilo Moessner, Johanna Vogelsanger, Laura Wright; and the wider community on academia.edu, who took part in online discussions: Brandon M. Bender, Lindsay Breach, Rolf H. Bremmer, András Cser, Stefan Dollinger, Paul R. Hyams, Jaka Jarc, Patrizia Lendinara, David Porter, Tanja Säily, and Yela Schauwecker. I am grateful to the anonymous readers for the press and my copyeditors, Rebekka Haerter and Rahel Huwyler. Thanks are also due to three journals – English Language and Linguistics, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, and their respective publishers for giving me permission to use parts of my earlier publications in this book.

This book is dedicated to my teacher, Matti Kilpiö.