Here is a selective bibliography containing some publications important for this seminar. These are available either in the Seminar Library (TB), the University Library (UB) or in e-book format.
Bailey, R., Nineteenth-Century English (Ann Arbor, MI, 1996) (UB)
Baron, N. S., Alphabet to E-mail: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading (London, 2000) (UB)
Bauer, L., Watching English Change: An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the Twentieth Century (London and New York, 1994) (TB, UB)
Beal, J. C., English in Modern Times: 1700-1945 (London, 2004) (TB)
Bergs, A., and L. Brinton, Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012) (e-book) [contains articles on Late Modern and Contemporary English (chs. 5-6) as well as on individual aspects of Late Modern English (chs. 52-59)]
Bergs, A., and L. Brinton, Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 2, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.2 (Berlin, 2012) (e-book) [contains articles on Varieties of English and Second-Language Varieties (chs. 116-136)]
Burchfield, R., ed., The Cambridge History of the English Language Vol. V: English in Britain and Overseas: Origins and Development (Cambridge, 1994) (e-book)
Crystal, D., English as a Global Language, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2003) (e-book)
Crystal, D., Language and the Internet, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2006) (e-book)
Görlach, M., Eighteenth-Century English (Heidelberg, 2001) (UB)
Görlach, M., English in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1999) (TB, UB)
Hickey, R., ed., Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (Cambridge, 2010) (UB)
Hickey, R., ed., Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the World (Cambridge, 2012) (e-book)
Hundt, M., ed., Late Modern English Syntax (Cambridge, 2014) (TB)
Jones, C., English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Basingstoke, 2006) (TB)
Kortmann, B., et al., ed., Varieties of English, 4 vols. and CD-ROM (Oxford, 2008) (UB)
Kytö, M., M. Ryden and E. Smitterberg, ed., Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change (Cambridge, 2006) (TB) (e-book)
Leech, G., et al., ed., Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study (Cambridge, 2009) (e-book)
