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[fluffyhamster]

Below are links to most of the quotes or paraphrases that (with the exception of the "Huddleston on 'remoteness'", which was posted by Woodcutter) I've made from various books over the years for the purposes of discussion here on Dave's. They might provide somewhat interesting reading for those who've not seen them before.

Algeo on the 'mandative indicative':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=859928#859928

Biber et al's LGSWE on choices of personal prounoun case:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=881360#881360

Biber et al's LSGSWE on relative clauses, and noun complement clauses:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=9497

Cambridge International Dictionary of English's list of Japanese "false friends":
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=723731#723731

Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman on the function of present perfect:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=12977#12977

COBUILD on the pattern 'n ADJ':
see Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL on 'postpositive adjectives'.

COBUILD on 'Personal pronouns as demonstratives':
see Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL on 'personal determinatives'.

COBUILD on reflexive pronouns:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=9866

Dabrowska on the meaning of 'No head injury is too trivial to ignore':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=2246

Fillmore & Atkins on 'semantic frames':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=2644

Huddleston (not Lewis!) on 'remoteness':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=11111#11111

Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL on 'personal determinatives':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=41922#41922

Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL on 'postpositive adjectives':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=39454#39454

Huddleston & Pullum's CGEL on 'reversed polarity tags':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=636686#636686

Hudson on universals versus language-particular constructions:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=811560#811560

Jarvie's "noun phrases":
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=9958

Kirkness on the most frequent way of negating 'used to':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=35372#35372

Lantolf defining 'Applied Linguistics':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=14617#14617

Mairal & Gil on linguistic universals:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=43272#43272

Matthews on connotation:
see Trask on connotation.

Matthews on 'evidentials':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=14679#14679

Pearce on 'that-clauses':
see Biber et al's LSGSWE on relative clauses, and noun complement clauses.

Sampson on 'impossible constructions':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=9936

Sampson on the innatist 'poverty of the stimulus' argument:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=37225#37225

Schmitt on vocabulary learning strategies:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=24907#24907

Stern on 'future tense':
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=4131

Taylor on modals:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=44082#44082

Trask on connotation:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=32579

Trask on dangling participles:
see Sampson on 'impossible constructions'.

Wells on Upton's changes to the pronunciation scheme used in OUP's native-speaker dictionaries:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=40224#40224

[mozzar]

This looks good. I'll endeavour to read through some of them as soon as I have the time.

[fluffyhamster]

Heh, thanks, and hope you find something that tickles your fancy, Mozzar! No worries though if you don't have time to reply further here (or on the threads linked to from here) - mostly I just post(ed) these snippets as a way of providing some sort of access (albeit limited) to quality resources such as the CGEL and COBUILD stuff, in order to help settle rather than (perhaps unnecessarily) continue discussing whatever point; that being said, there are one or two topics (e.g. that whole 'language instinct' debate) that will probably always be "good" for a bit of debate for the foreseeable future.