This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. The volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, covering a range of theoretical approaches and including the relationship between 'core' grammar and other areas of language.

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

... those who are looking for a concise yet exhaustive dive into the scholarly discourse surrounding English grammar and linguistics would be hard-pressed to find a better, more thorough introduction to the field.

Addresses foundational areas of research methodology Explores a range of theoretical approaches to English grammar Covers all the core subdomains of grammar, including morphology Examines the relationship between grammar and other areas of linguistics Explores grammatical variation across genres and dialects, and change over time

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books with OUP include Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (OUP, 2004), Syntactic Gradience (2007), Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011), The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2nd edition 2014) and How to Teach Grammar (2019). He is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics. Jill Bowie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Survey of English Usage, University College London, where she previously worked on the AHRC-funded projects 'The changing verb phrase in present-day British English' and 'Teaching English grammar in schools'. Her research interests include recent change in English and the grammar of spoken discourse. She has co-authored papers with Survey colleagues on clause fragments and on changes in the English verb phrase Gergana Popova is Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her interests are in theoretical linguistics, specifically morphology and its interfaces, and lexical semantics. She is the co-editor, with Bas Aarts, David Denison, and Evelien Keizer, of Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (OUP, 2004), author of articles and book chapters, and co-author, with Andrew Spencer, of the forthcoming OUP monograph Periphrasis.

Addresses foundational areas of research methodology Explores a range of theoretical approaches to English grammar Covers all the core subdomains of grammar, including morphology Examines the relationship between grammar and other areas of linguistics Explores grammatical variation across genres and dialects, and change over time