The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar

by Aarts, Bas; Bowie, Jill; Popova, Gergana

• ISBN13: 9780198755104
• ISBN10: 0198755104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-01-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books with OUP include Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (OUP, 2004), Syntactic Gradience (2007), Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011), The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2nd edition 2014) and How to Teach Grammar (2019). He is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics.

Jill Bowie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Survey of English Usage, University College London, where she previously worked on the AHRC-funded projects 'The changing verb phrase in present-day British English' and 'Teaching English grammar in schools'. Her research interests include recent change in English and the grammar of spoken discourse. She has co-authored papers with Survey colleagues on clause fragments and on changes in the English verb phrase

Gergana Popova is Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her interests are in theoretical linguistics, specifically morphology and its interfaces, and lexical semantics. She is the co-editor, with Bas Aarts, David Denison, and Evelien Keizer, of Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (OUP, 2004), author of articles and book chapters, and co-author, with Andrew Spencer, of the forthcoming OUP monograph Periphrasis.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, and Gergana Popova
Part I: Grammar writing and methodology
1. Conceptualizations of grammar in the history of English grammaticology, Margaret Thomas
2. Syntactic argumentation, Bas Aarts
3. Grammar and the use of data, Jon Sprouse and Carson T. Schutze
4. Grammar and corpus methodology, Sean Wallis
Part II: Approaches to English grammar
5. Cognitive linguistic approaches, John R. Taylor
6. Constructional approaches, Martin Hilpert
7. Dependency and valency approaches, Thomas Herbst
8. Generative approaches, Terje Lohndal and Liliane Haegeman
9. Functional approaches, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
10. Modern and traditional descriptive approaches, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum
11. Theoretical approaches to morphology, Andrew Spencer
Part III: Subdomains of grammar
12. Inflection and derivation, Andrew Spencer
13. Compounds, Laurie Bauer
14. Word classes, Willem B. Hollmann
15. Phrase structure, Robert D. Borsley
16. Noun phrases, Evelien Keizer
17. Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts, Patrick Duffley
18. Clause types and speech act functions, Ekkehard Konig
19. Tense and aspect, Ilse Depraetere and Anastasios Tsangalidis
20. Mood and modality, Debra Ziegeler
21. Subordination and coordination, Thomas Egan
22. Information structure, Gunther Kaltenbock
Part IV: Grammar and other fields of enquiry
23. Grammar and lexis, Doris Schonefeld
24. Grammar and phonology, Sam Hellmuth and Ian Cushing
25. Grammar and meaning, Ash Asudeh
26. Grammar and discourse, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova
Part V: Grammatical variation and change
27. Change in grammar, Marianne Hundt
28. Regional varieties of English: non-standard grammatical features, Peter Siemund
29. Global variation in the Anglophone world, Bernd Kortmann
30. Genre variation, Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner
31. Literary variation, Lesley Jeffries