This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, including articles examining the relationship between linguistics and philology; analyzing syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory; suggesting a pragmatic analysis of historical data; and re-opening the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing; Morphology and Syntax; Lexicology and Semantics; and Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts.