Papers (mainly) on Word Grammar
Last updated 9 November 2009
Contents
Downloadable papers on Word Grammar
- Practical syntax (1995)
- HPSG without PS (1995)
- Measuring syntactic difficulty (1995)
- Towards a nation of linguists? Some fantasies about future research.(1996)
- What is a word? (1996)
Papers on education and other
topics
- Letter to THE about the Worton Report (13 Nov 2009)
- Norm, standard, deviation (draft July 2009)
- Words and pictures - graphical grammar (pub 2009 in emagazine)
- How I became a linguist (Feb 2009, for Linguist List)
- The language crisis: HE to the rescue! (draft March 2008)
- A history of the LAGB: the first fifty years. (published 2009)
- Linguistic theory (for the Handbook of Educational Linguistics) (published 2008)
- Is standard English easy to learn? (October 2007)
- Measuring maturity (September 2007)
- How linguistics has influenced schools in England (March 2007)
- Language for its own sake. Towards an A level in linguistics for NATE magazine (pub Feb 2007)
- Grammatical functions (February 2007)
- Why are foreign languages in trouble? (Jan 2007)
- Negative evidence (Nov 2006, for Teachit)
- Review of Evans and Green, 'Cognitive Linguistics. An introduction' for THES (Oct 2006)
- Word classes (January 2006)
- Word Grammar, cognitive linguistics and second-language learning and teaching (January 2006)
- Grammar and writing (July 2005)
- (with John Walmsley) The English Patient: English grammar and teaching in the twentieth century (May 2005)
- Language education: grammar, for the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (April 2004)
- Grammar for writing (April 2004)
- Why education needs linguistics (and vice versa) (July 2003)
- How can key skills "sell" linguistics to students and employers? (June 2003)
- Language is part of the network of knowledge (for American Assn for Applied Ling March 2003)
- Revolution in England: at last, linguistics meets school teaching (January 2003)
- The language of names (published, December 2002)
- Autobiography (June 2002)
- (With Geoff Barton) Weekly columns on grammar teaching (from April 2002 - 2004)
- (With Geoff Barton) Grammar teaching: glamour or grind? (February 2002)
- Grammar teaching and writing skills: the research evidence (published 2001)
- How to: Ensure a modifier does not dangle (March 2001)
- Review of Terrence Deacon, "The Symbolic Species" (August 1999)
- Grammar teaching is dead - NOT! (February 1998, revised May 1998)
- Is grammar teachable? (Spring 1998)
- Children's use of spoken standard English (1995)
- Evidence to the BFI Commission of Inquiry into English (1994)
- The higher-level differences between speech and writing (1984)
- Linguistic equality (1983)
- Some issues on which linguists can agree (1981)
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