The Structure of English

Linguistics/English 394
Fall 2012
Prof. Suzanne Kemmer
Rice University

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The following works are useful for reference, for exploration, or for use in assignments as instructed or recommended.

Grammars of English

Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English Word-Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman.

Huddleston, Rodney, and Geoffrey Pullum. 2002. Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (This is the much larger work on which our textbook is based.)

Jespersen, Otto. 1909-49. Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (7 vols.) London: Allen & Unwin; Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard.

Jespersen, Otto. 1933. Essentials of English Grammar. London: Allen & Unwin. (A manageable digest of his monumental work above.)

Marchand, Hans. 1969. The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-formation. München: C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

McCarthy, Michael, and Ronald Carter. 2006. Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman. (This book, a favorite of many linguists, is often abbreviated QGLS and is therefore called "Quiggles" in spoken language.)

Descriptive Treatments of Syntactic Patterns

McCawley, James. 1988. The Syntactic Phenomena of English. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

English Dictionaries

OED: The Oxford English Dictionary (online). You must be on a Rice network or use a VPN connection from off-campus to access Fondren Library's electronic portal to the OED.

Merriam-Webster Online



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