Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics / The Handbook of English Linguistics

Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction (Bas Aarts, University College London and April McMahon, University of Edinburgh). Part I: Methodology. 2. Description and Theory (Kresti Borjars, University of Manchester). 3. English Corpus Linguistics (Tony McEnergy, Lancaster University and Costas Gabrielatos, Lancaster University). 4. English Grammar Writing (Andrew Linn, University of Sheffield). 5. Data Collection (Charles F. Meyer, University of Massachusetts, Boston and Gerald Nelson, University College London). Part II: Syntax. 6. English World Classes and Phrases (Bas Aarts, University College London and Liliane Haegeman, University of Lille III). 7. Verbs and Their Satellites (David Allerton, University of Basle, Switzerland). 8. Clause Types (Peter Collins, University of New South Wales). 9. Coordination and Subordination (Rodney Huddleston, University of Queensland and Geoffrey K. Pullum, University of California, Santa Cruz). 10. Tense in English (Laura A. Michaelis, University of Colorado, Boulder). 11. Aspect and Aspectuality (Robert I. Binnick, University of Toronto). 12. Mood and Modality in English (Ilse Depraetere, University of Lille III and Susan Reed, Katholieke Univeriteit Leuven). 13. Information Structure (Betty J. Birner, Northern Illinois University and Gregory Ward, Northwestern University). 14. Current Changes in English Syntax (Christian Mair, University of Freiburg and Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University). 15. English Constructions (Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University and Devin Casenhiser, Princeton University). Part III: Phonetics and Phonology. 16. English Phonetics (Michael K.C. MacMahon, University of Glasgow). 17. English Phonology and Morphology (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and April McMahon, University of Edinburgh). 18. Prosodic Phonology (Michael Hammond, University of Arizona). 19. Intonation (Francis Nolan, University of Cambridge). Part IV: Lexis and Morphology. 20. English Words (Donka Imnkova,

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Directorof the Survey of English Usage at University College London. Hispublications include Small Clauses in English: The NonverbalTypes (1992), The Verb in Contemporary English (editedwith Charles F. Meyer, 1995), English Syntax andArgumentation (1997/2001), Investigating Natural Language:Working with the British Component of the International Corpus ofEnglish (with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis, 2002), and Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (edited with David Denison, EvelienKeizer, and Gergana Popova, 2004). With David Denison and RichardHogg, he edits the journal English Language andLinguistics .

April McMahon is Forbes Professor of English Language atthe University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Understanding Language Change (1994), Lexical Phonologyand the History of English (2000), Change, Chance, andOptimality (2000), An Introduction to English Phonology (2002), and Language Classification by Numbers (with RobertMcMahon, 2005).

"The handbook is cohesive in its consistent depth of attention to variation, description, and history ... a comprehensive picture of today's English ... Recommended. Upper division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." CHOICE

"This addition to the admirable series of Blackwell Handbooks contains thirty-one articles of about twenty to twenty-five pages by a distinguished set of contributors [It] functions as a showcase for English linguistics, and as a map of the territory." Linguistics"Just what the English Language needs at the start of the twenty-first century: an authoritative guide to the literature, balancing solid scholarship with openness, clarity, wisdom, and breadth pronunciation, education, linguistic theory, and much else. Highly recommended!" Richard Hudson, University College London

"Bas Aarts and April McMahon have assembled a star-studded cast of linguistic experts who have produced a state-of-the art compendium on all the major aspects of the modern English Language." Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg

"Both as editors and as authors, Professor Aarts and Professor McMahon have achieved something quite remarkable with this splendid Handbook. They have divided the complex field of English linguistics into the thirty or so areas of greatest present interest, and from a truly international cast have selected the most expert scholars in the world to tackle them." Randolph Quirk, Professor The Lord Quirk of Bloomsbury, FBAA

"very good resource on major areas of English linguistics, among them phonetics and phonology, syntax, corpus linguistics and data collection, morphology, variation, and discourse." Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University

"The handbook is cohesive in its consistent depth of attention to variation, description, and history ... a comprehensive picture of today's English ... Recommended. Upper division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." CHOICE "This addition to the admirable series of Blackwell Handbooks contains thirty-one articles of about twenty to twenty-five pages by a distinguished set of contributors ... [It] functions as a showcase for English linguistics, and as a map of the territory." Linguistics "Just what the English Language needs at the start of the twenty-first century: an authoritative guide to the literature, balancing solid scholarship with openness, clarity, wisdom, and breadth - pronunciation, education, linguistic theory, and much else. Highly recommended!" Richard Hudson, University College London "Bas Aarts and April McMahon have assembled a star-studded cast of linguistic experts who have produced a state-of-the art compendium on all the major aspects of the modern English Language." Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg "Both as editors and as authors, Professor Aarts and Professor McMahon have achieved something quite remarkable with this splendid Handbook. They have divided the complex field of English linguistics into the thirty or so areas of greatest present interest, and from a truly international cast have selected the most expert scholars in the world to tackle them." Randolph Quirk, Professor The Lord Quirk of Bloomsbury, FBA "A very good resource on major areas of English linguistics, among them phonetics and phonology, syntax, corpus linguistics and data collection, morphology, variation, and discourse." Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University