Full Description
This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. Following an introduction from the editors, the volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, beginning with issues in grammar writing and methodology. Chapters in part II then examine the various theoretical approaches to grammar, such as cognitive, constructional, and generative approaches, followed by the chapters in part III, which comprehensively cover the different subdomains of grammar, including compounds, phrase structure, clause types, tense and aspect, and information structure. Part IV offers coverage of the relationship between grammar and other fields - lexis, phonology, meaning, and discourse - while the concluding part of the book investigates grammatical change over time, regional variation, and genre and literary variation. The handbook's wide-ranging coverage will appeal to researchers and students of English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards.
Contents
Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, and Gergana Popova: Introduction
Part I: Grammar writing and methodology
1: Margaret Thomas: Conceptualizations of grammar in the history of English grammaticology
2: Bas Aarts: Syntactic argumentation
3: Jon Sprouse and Carson T. Schütze: Grammar and the use of data
4: Sean Wallis: Grammar and corpus methodology
Part II: Approaches to English grammar
5: John R. Taylor: Cognitive linguistic approaches
6: Martin Hilpert: Constructional approaches
7: Thomas Herbst: Dependency and valency approaches
8: Terje Lohndal and Liliane Haegeman: Generative approaches
9: J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Functional approaches
10: Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum: Modern and traditional descriptive approaches
11: Andrew Spencer: Theoretical approaches to morphology
Part III: Subdomains of grammar
12: Andrew Spencer: Inflection and derivation
13: Laurie Bauer: Compounds
14: Willem B. Hollmann: Word classes
15: Robert D. Borsley: Phrase structure
16: Evelien Keizer: Noun phrases
17: Patrick Duffley: Clause structure, complements, and adjuncts
18: Ekkehard König: Clause types and speech act functions
19: Ilse Depraetere and Anastasios Tsangalidis: Tense and aspect
20: Debra Ziegeler: Mood and modality
21: Thomas Egan: Subordination and coordination
22: Gunther Kaltenböck: Information structure
Part IV: Grammar and other fields of enquiry
23: Doris Schönefeld: Grammar and lexis
24: Sam Hellmuth and Ian Cushing: Grammar and phonology
25: Ash Asudeh: Grammar and meaning
26: Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova: Grammar and discourse
Part V: Grammatical variation and change
27: Marianne Hundt: Change in grammar
28: Peter Siemund: Regional varieties of English: non-standard grammatical features
29: Bernd Kortmann: Global variation in the Anglophone world
30: Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner: Genre variation
31: Lesley Jeffries: Literary variation
