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