Papers (mainly) on Word Grammar
Last updated 5 Jan 2012
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Downloadable papers on Word Grammar
- Review of Anat Ninio, "Language and the Learning Curve. A new theory of syntactic development" (Language 86, 452-5, 2010)
- BBS commentary on Doug Jones, "Human kinship, from conceptual structure to grammar" (2010)
- Reaction to Evans and Levinson (2009), "The myth of language universals".
- A cognitive analysis of John's hat (draft Nov 2009)
- Comment on Edmondson's 'General Cognitive Principles: The Structure of Behaviour and The Sequential Imperative' (draft 2009)
- (with Haitao LIU and Zhiwei FENG) Using a Chinese treebank to measure dependency distance (pub 2009)
- Lexical semantics and syntax: commercial transactions re-analyzed (draft June 2008)
- Word Grammar, for the Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (draft April 2008)
- Word Grammar and Construction Grammar (published 2008)
- Word Grammar, cognitive linguistics and second-language learning and teaching (published 2008)
- Word Grammar - for the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (published 2007)
- Towards a useful theory of language (Nov 2007)
- (with Amela Camdzic) Serbo-Croat-Bosnian Clitics and Word Grammar (published November 2007)
- Commercial transactions revisited (August 2007)
- Inherent variability and modularity: comments on Adger's 'Combinatorial variability' (February 2007)
- English dialect syntax in Word Grammar (February 2007)
- Wanna revisited (April 2006)
- (with Jasper Holmes) Constructions in Word Grammar (published 2005)
- Interpreting in linguistics (August 2004)
- Word Grammar for Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition) (April 2004)
- Are determiners heads? (August 2003)
- The psychological reality of dependencies (May 2003)
- Introduction to Word Grammar (July 2002)
- Gerunds without phrase structure (July 2002)
- (with Chet Creider) Case Agreement in Ancient Greek: implications for a theory of covert elements (June 2002)
- Trouble on the left periphery (June 2002)
- Case agreement, PRO and structure sharing (May 2002)
- Mismatches in default inheritance (March 2002)
- Buying and selling in Word Grammar (January 2002)
- Clitics in Word Grammar (August 2001)
- Word Grammar - for International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (October 2000)
- Quantifiers in Word Grammar (August 2000)
- Discontinuity (September 1999)
- *I amn't (July 1999)
- Subject-verb agreement in English (May 1999)
- (with Jasper Holmes) Re-cycling in the encyclopedia (May 99)
- Grammar without functional categories (August 99)
- Language as a cognitive network (September 1998)
- (with Chet Creider) Inflectional morphology in Word Grammar (Feb 1998, revised May 1998)
- German partial VP fronting (August 1997)
- Word Grammar for Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (updated 1997)
- The rise of auxiliary DO: verb-non-raising or category-strengthening? (published 1997)
- Inherent variability and linguistic theory (published 1997)
- The difficulty of (so-called) self-embedded structures (semi-published 1996)
- (with And Rosta, Jasper Holmes andNik Gisborne) Synonyms and syntax (published 1996)
- Does English really have case? (published 1995)
- Syntax and sociolinguistics (published 1995)
- About 37% of word-tokens are nouns (published 1994)
- Zwicky on heads (published 1987)
- Sociolinguistics and the theory of grammar (published 1986)
- Review of two books on Systemic Grammar (published 1986)
- Some basic assumptions about linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge (published 1985)
- Review of George Horn, 'Lexical Functional Grammar' (published 1985)
- Incomplete conjuncts (published 1982)
- 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
- (with Louis Blois) The Linguistics Olympiad (published Nov 2011 in e-magazine)
- (with Vivienne Rogers) Going for gold with languages. (In Francophonie Sept 2011, published by the Association for Language Learning)
- How many languages is it possible to learn? (for Rick Rickerson and Barry Hilton (eds) The Five-minute Linguist (2nd edition) (Equinox) (draft 2011)
- Why Yoda can't be human (for e-magazine 2011)
- (with Dan Clayton) Give us a golden age of grammar (TES Nov 5 2010) - supporting material
- Analysing the grammar of spoken language (August 2010 for e-magazine)
- Sweet's New English Grammar (THE, July 2010)
- Is English a language? A brief history (June 2010)
- Letter to THE about the Worton Report (13 Nov 2009)
- Norm, standard, deviation (draft July 2009)
- Words and pictures - graphical grammar (pub 2009 in e-magazine)
- 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)
- Modification (e-magazine, 2008)
- 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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