D. Gary Miller is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and the Classics at the Universities of Florida and Colorado, Boulder. His previous books with OUP include Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change (2002), Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English (2005), Language Change and Linguistic Theory (2 vols; 2010), External Influences on English: From Beginnings to the Renaissance (2012), and English Lexicogenesis (2014).