Handbook of English Linguistics

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at UCL, UK. His recent publications include Syntactic Gradience (2007), Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011), the Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, second edition (with S. Chalker and E. Weiner, 2014), How to Teach Grammar (with I. Cushing and R. Hudson, 2019) and the Oxford Handbook of English Grammar (with J. Bowie and G. Popova, 2019). He is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics.April McMahon is Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students at the University of Manchester, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Academy, and the Learned Society of Wales. She is author of Understanding Language Change (1994) and An Introduction to English Phonology (Second Edition, 2020), and has published extensively on the historical phonology of English, language family relationships and evolutionary linguistics.Lars Hinrichs is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He specializes in research on varieties of English around the world and corpus linguistics. He directs the Texas English Linguistics Lab, which studies variation and change in Texas English.

• Preface Notes on ContributorsChapter 1 IntroductionPart 1 MethodologyChapter 2 Description and TheoryChapter 3 English Corpus LinguisticsChapter 4 Experimental ApproachesChapter 5 English Grammar WritingChapter 6 Data CollectionPart 2 SyntaxChapter 7 English Word Classes and PhrasesChapter 8 Clause TypesChapter 9 Complements and AdjunctsChapter 10 Tense in EnglishChapter 11 Aspect and AspectualityChapter 12 Mood and Modality in EnglishChapter 13 Information StructureChapter 14 Current Changes in English SyntaxChapter 15 Constructions in English GrammarChapter 16 Syntactic Variation in English: A Global PerspectivePart 3 Phonetics and PhonologyChapter 17 English PhoneticsChapter 18 English Phonology and MorphologyChapter 19 Prosodic PhonologyChapter 20 IntonationChapter 21 Phonological Variation: A Global PerspectivePart 4 Lexis and MorphologyChapter 22 English WordsChapter 23 Compounds and Minor Word-Formation TypesChapter 24 ProductivityChapter 25 Lexical SemanticsChapter 26 English LexicographyPart 5 Discourse, Styles, and UsageChapter 27 Speaking and Writing EnglishChapter 28 English on Social MediaChapter 29 Gender, Sexuality, and the English LanguageChapter 30 Language and LiteratureChapter 31 English UsageChapter 32 Mobility and the English LanguageIndex