English etymology and lexichology, Attitudes to language, Corpus linguistics, Dialect, English as a world language, English dialects, English morphology, English syntax, Generative linguistics, Language history (comparative linguistics, etymology), Language norms (orthography), Pragmatic linguistics (Historical Pragmatics), Specialised language research (The Paston Family), Syntax, Text typology (genre theory) (Personal Letters), Varieties of English outside the British Isles