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I can't wait for the following book (Leech et al's Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study, part of CUP's Studies in English Language series*) to come out in paperback!
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521867221
Also on my shopping list now is the Blackwell Handbook of English Linguistics.
Anybody else got any books they've "got their eye on"? 
*The same series that the Algeo book (that I link to/refer to/quote from in the post immediately above this one) hails from! |
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While searching for something or another, I came across an obituary (by Michael Hoey) for John Sinclair, the influential linguist who really "rebooted" corpus-based studies of English and made the University of Birmingham and the COBUILD project world-famous. I hadn't realized he'd died, nor I suspect have many people, so I thought I'd post the link as a sort of belated tribute to the man (not that I knew him, but you get the sentiment!):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/may/03/guardianobituaries.obituaries
Another reason for posting this (this being the Book Browser thread after all!) is that a book mentioned in the obituary caught my eye:
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| Linear Unit Grammar (2006), co-authored with Anna Mauranen, revisits the idiom principle and absorbs it into an integrated theory of grammar. It is likely that this will posthumously be recognised as a further major contribution to our understanding of English. |
It's previewable on Google Books, and is of particular interest (to me at least) because it apparently carries forward the work of David Brazil (whose A Grammar of Speech is mentioned in the Dedication on page vii). |
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(A non-recommendation, this one!) The closing lines of Geoffrey Pullum's review (in a pdf that he links to over on Language Log) of Simon Heffer's Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write...and Why It Matters: "Peddling fictive rules is not a defence of writing standards; it is an intellectual abdication. Heffer should be ashamed of himself, and Random House should be ashamed of this book."
(Gotta also love another bit that Pullum, and a reader in response by way of comment, wrote: "I know that a few tender souls will feel that there must be something good in everything, and that I really shouldn't be so negative. So I will say one favorable thing about the book. Holding it in my hands did not make my skin erupt in a horrible disfiguring disease" - 'You just want to be quoted in their advertising').
In the Language Log piece there's also a link provided by Pullum to another review (also negative) of Heffer by David Crystal.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2780 |
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There's a new book out in the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series: Richard Hudson's An Introduction to Word Grammar.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/*beep*/publications.htm
I'm currently reading through his 1998 English Grammar (from the Routledge Language Workbooks series), which has been a bit of a mixed bag so far: one minute he's scared of burdening the reader with even one easy item of terminology, yet the next he's posing, for the average reader, probably quite brain-numbing questions. Definitely one more for any undergraduate aiming to get into "linguistics proper" by means of doing dependency-grammar diagramming (and who really wants or even needs to do much of that?) than for the budding EFL teacher seeking a more straightforward grounding in relatively mainstream traditional-modern descriptive grammar, then!
By the way, at the top of the page (of this here Brian Browser thread) there's a link to a passage I quoted from Hudson's 2007 Language Networks. |
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This looks like it could be a nice (i.e. relatively gentler than Van Valin etc) introduction to language analysis in the RRG (Role and Reference Grammar) mould: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2713287/?site_locale=en_GB
(The Structure of Language: An Introduction to Grammatical Analysis, by Emma L Pavey. CUP 2010)
The book that I'm really really waiting for however is the ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary from the University of Hawaii Press (there's been a considerable delay in Amazon stocking this, for some strange reason!). |
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Routledge has released a Handbook of Applied Linguistics (in its, er, Handbooks in Applied Linguistics range):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Routledge-Handbook-Applied-Linguistics-Handbooks/dp/0415490677
Some of the contributors are the same/contributing roughly the same topics as in the Blackwell Handbook of AL (eds Davies & Elder), but some are more definitely associated with ELT, which could be good, e.g. Swan, Thornbury, Larsen-Freeman. |
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| New in the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series is Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice by Tony McEnery & Andrew Hardie. It's previewable on Google Books, as well as (in the hardcover version) on Amazon UK. |
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