Handbook of English Linguistics (eBook)

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 Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction

Part 1 Methodology

Chapter 2 Description and Theory

Chapter 3 English Corpus Linguistics

Chapter 4 Experimental Approaches

Chapter 5 English Grammar Writing

Chapter 6 Data Collection

Part 2 Syntax

Chapter 7 English Word Classes and Phrases

Chapter 8 Clause Types

Chapter 9 Complements and Adjuncts

Chapter 10 Tense in English

Chapter 11 Aspect and Aspectuality

Chapter 12 Mood and Modality in English

Chapter 13 Information Structure

Chapter 14 Current Changes in English Syntax

Chapter 15 Constructions in English Grammar

Chapter 16 Syntactic Variation in English: A Global Perspective

Part 3 Phonetics and Phonology

Chapter 17 English Phonetics

Chapter 18 English Phonology and Morphology

Chapter 19 Prosodic Phonology

Chapter 20 Intonation

Chapter 21 Phonological Variation: A Global Perspective

Part 4 Lexis and Morphology

Chapter 22 English Words

Chapter 23 Compounds and Minor Word-Formation Types

Chapter 24 Productivity

Chapter 25 Lexical Semantics

Chapter 26 English Lexicography

Part 5 Discourse, Styles, and Usage

Chapter 27 Speaking and Writing English

Chapter 28 English on Social Media

Chapter 29 Gender, Sexuality, and the English Language

Chapter 30 Language and Literature

Chapter 31 English Usage

Chapter 32 Mobility and the English Language

Index