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English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous w... more English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), winner of the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America. The analyses defended there are out lined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in spe cially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken.
English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous w... more English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), winner of the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America. The analyses defended there are out lined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in spe cially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken.