This volume is a collection of papers presented at the third international conference of The
Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Hiroshima University
Japan in August 2009. The Society aims to bring together linguistics and philology and
encourage younger scholars graduate and undergraduate students to read and publish papers in
the fields of English historical linguistics and philology. The papers included in this volume
cover various subjects in the history of English language and literature but concentrate on
the language and style of Geoffrey Chaucer a theme pursued for years at Hiroshima University.
