Manuscript Studies

Historical Sociolinguistics
Wallis, C. 2026. Historical Sociolinguistics. in: Nesi, Hilary, Milin, Petar and Zehentner, Eva (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 3rd Edition Elsevier.

Book Review: Míša Hejná & George Walkden. A History of English (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 439. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6560337.
Wallis, C. Forthcoming. Book Review: Míša Hejná & George Walkden. A History of English (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 439. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6560337. Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Franks and Friendship: Eighteenth-Century Postal Practices in The Mary Hamilton Papers
Wallis, C. 2025. Franks and Friendship: Eighteenth-Century Postal Practices in The Mary Hamilton Papers. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies. 48 (4), pp. 449-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.70003

Review of The Victorians and English dialect: Matthew Townend (2024)
Wallis, C. 2025. Review of The Victorians and English dialect: Matthew Townend (2024).

Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Louise Sylvester (eds.), Medieval English in a multilingual context: Current methodologies and approaches (New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xxvi + 549. ISBN 9783031309465.
Christine Wallis 2025. Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Louise Sylvester (eds.), Medieval English in a multilingual context: Current methodologies and approaches (New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xxvi + 549. ISBN 9783031309465. English Language and Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674325100336

Like father, like son? Scots and intra-writer variation in The Mary Hamilton Papers
Wallis, C. 2025. Like father, like son? Scots and intra-writer variation in The Mary Hamilton Papers. in: Litty, S.M. and Langer, N. (ed.) Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on Minoritized Languages Past and Present Peter Lang.

English Manuscript Traditions
Wallis, C. 2025. English Manuscript Traditions. in: Kytö, M. and Smitterberg, E. (ed.) The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling. The New Cambridge History of the English Language Cambridge University Press. pp. 127-153

A Fragment of Ælfric’s Homily for Septuagesima Sunday: Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, MS Bodmer 2
Wallis, C., Seiler, A. and Studer-Joho, N. 2025. A Fragment of Ælfric’s Homily for Septuagesima Sunday: Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, MS Bodmer 2. in: Seiler, A. and Studer-Joho, N. (ed.) Old English in Switzerland: Manuscripts, Texts and Libraries Schwabe Verlag.

Social Ties and Negotiation of Lexical Norms in Old English: The vocabularies of vices
Timofeeva, O. and Wallis, C. 2024. Social Ties and Negotiation of Lexical Norms in Old English: The vocabularies of vices. Lexis: Journal of English Lexicology. Special issue 3. https://doi.org/10.4000/12izd

Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536
Wallis, C., Seiler, A. and Pagan, H. 2024. Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536. Lexis: Journal of English Lexicology. 3. https://doi.org/10.4000/12izg

Personal names in medieval libri vitæ as a sociolinguistic resource
Michelle Waldispühl and Christine Wallis 2023. Personal names in medieval libri vitæ as a sociolinguistic resource. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 9 (1), pp. 129-161. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2021-0020

Philological approaches
Seiler, A. and Wallis, C. 2023. Philological approaches. in: Condorelli, M. and Rutkowska, H. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography Cambridge University Press. pp. 338-359

Linguistic repertoires and intra-writer variation in Old English: Hemming of Worcester
Wallis, C. 2023. Linguistic repertoires and intra-writer variation in Old English: Hemming of Worcester. in: Schiegg, M. and Huber, J. (ed.) Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics Peter Lang. pp. 451-472

Olga Timofeeva: Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities of people (Advances in historical sociolinguistics 13)
Wallis, C. 2023. Olga Timofeeva: Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities of people (Advances in historical sociolinguistics 13). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 9 (2), pp. 329-333. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2022-0026

Linguistic Layers in John of Garland's Dictionarius
Pagan, H., Seiler, A. and Wallis, C. 2023. Linguistic Layers in John of Garland's Dictionarius. Études Médiévales Anglaises: A French Journal of English Medieval Studies. 102, pp. 63-108.

The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850)
David Denison, Nuria Yanez Bouza, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Wallis, C., Hannah Barker and Sophie Coulombeau 2022. The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850). Manchester Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.48420/21687809.v1

Review of Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg (eds.). 2020. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Wallis, C. 2021. Review of Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg (eds.). 2020. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters. Amsterdam: Benjamins. LINGUIST List. 32 1703.

Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP): introduction
Beal, J.C., Sen, R., Yanez-Bouza, N. and Wallis, C. 2020. Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP): introduction. English Language and Linguistics. 24 (3), pp. 471-474. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674320000210

Using the eighteenth century English phonology database (ECEP) as a teaching resource
Wallis, C. 2020. Using the eighteenth century English phonology database (ECEP) as a teaching resource. English Language and Linguistics. 24 (2), pp. 591-606. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674320000143

En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology database
Beal, J., Sen, R., Yáñez-Bouza, N. and Wallis, C. 2020. En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology database. English Language and Linguistics. 24 (3), pp. 493-526. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674320000258

Book review: Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Gerald P. Dyson. Boydell and Brewer, 2019. x + 286 pages, £60. ISBN: 9781783273669.
Wallis, C. 2020. Book review: Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Gerald P. Dyson. Boydell and Brewer, 2019. x + 286 pages, £60. ISBN: 9781783273669. TOEBI Newsletter. 37, pp. 102-106.

Conservatism and Innovation in Anglo-Saxon Scribal Practice
Wallis, C. 2018. Conservatism and Innovation in Anglo-Saxon Scribal Practice. in: Petré, P., Cuyckens , H. and D'hoedt, F. (ed.) Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English John Benjamins Publishing Company.

‘Proper’ pro-nun-ſha-ſhun in Eighteenth-Century English: ECEP as a New Tool for the Study of Historical Phonology and Dialectology
Yáñez-Bouza, N., Beal, J.C., Sen, R. and Wallis, C. 2018. ‘Proper’ pro-nun-ſha-ſhun in Eighteenth-Century English: ECEP as a New Tool for the Study of Historical Phonology and Dialectology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 33 (1), pp. 203-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx003

Review of Don Ringe and Ann Taylor (2017), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, vol. II). (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Wallis, C. 2017. Review of Don Ringe and Ann Taylor (2017), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, vol. II). (Oxford: Oxford University Press). LINGUIST List. 28.4927.

Review of Frederick Klaeber (2015), A Commentary on the Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, ed. and trans. Valentine A. Pakis. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).
Wallis, C. 2017. Review of Frederick Klaeber (2015), A Commentary on the Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, ed. and trans. Valentine A. Pakis. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Speculum. 92 (4), pp. 1207-1208. https://doi.org/10.1086/693824

Unpublished Dry-point Annotations in a Manuscript of the Old English Bede: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B
Wallis, C. 2016. Unpublished Dry-point Annotations in a Manuscript of the Old English Bede: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B. Medium Ævum. 85 (1), pp. 15-32. https://doi.org/10.2307/26396468

II Old English
Lacey, E., Symons, V., Thomson, S. and Wallis, C. 2016. II Old English. The Year's Work in English Studies. 95 (1), pp. 200-232. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maw001

The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database
Sen, R., Beal, J.C., Yanez-Bouza, N. and Wallis, C. 2016. The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database. The Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.

II Old English
Fisher, R., Symons, V., Thomson, S. and Wallis, C. 2015. II Old English. The Year's Work in English Studies. 94 (1), pp. 127-152. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/mav014

Studies in Late Modern English Historical Phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP)
Sen, R., Beal, J.C., Yanez-Bouza, N. and Wallis, C. 2015. Studies in Late Modern English Historical Phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP). The Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.

Review of Donka Minkova (2014), A Historical Phonology of English
Wallis, C. 2014. Review of Donka Minkova (2014), A Historical Phonology of English. LINGUIST List. 25 4162.

‘The Old English Bede: Scribal Strategy and Invention in MS CCCC41’
Wallis, C. 2013. ‘The Old English Bede: Scribal Strategy and Invention in MS CCCC41’. in: Hejná, M., Filipová, H. and Znojemská, H. (ed.) Freond Ic Gemete Wið: Perspectives on Medieval Britain; Language, Literature, Society Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
Wallis, C. 2013. The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. PhD thesis University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of English

Layers of reading in the Old English Bede
Christine Wallis 2013. Layers of reading in the Old English Bede. in: Jucker, A.H., Landert, D., Seiler, A. and Studer-Joho, N. (ed.) Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context John Benjamins. pp. 19-38

“Hu mæg ure geferscipe beon gewissod butan geþeahtere?” Ælfric’s Colloquy and Latin Learning in Anglo-Saxon England’
Wallis, C. 2012. “Hu mæg ure geferscipe beon gewissod butan geþeahtere?” Ælfric’s Colloquy and Latin Learning in Anglo-Saxon England’. Track Changes. 3, pp. 35-49.