Jump to content

Rodney Huddleston: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
m Update template; tidy
Adallace (talk | contribs)
43 edits
Replaced a broken web citation with a citation of a curriculum vitae in a published book along with a Google books preview link. Wasn't easy to find, actually.
Line 4: Line 4:
Huddleston is the primary author of ''[[The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language]]'' (ISBN 0-521-43146-8), which presents a comprehensive [[grammar|descriptive grammar]] of English.
Huddleston is the primary author of ''[[The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language]]'' (ISBN 0-521-43146-8), which presents a comprehensive [[grammar|descriptive grammar]] of English.


After graduating from Cambridge in 1960 with a First Class Honors degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, Huddleston earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1963 under the supervision of [[Michael Halliday]].<ref>[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/ucl-views/huddleston]</ref> He held lectureships at the [[University of Edinburgh]], [[University College London]], and the [[University of Reading]]. He moved to The University of Queensland in 1969, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was the recipient of the first round of 'Excellence in Teaching' awards at the University of Queensland in 1988. In 1990 he was awarded a Personal Chair.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Cambridge_Grammar_of_the_English_Lan.html?id=RFtYPgAACAAJ|title = The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language: About the Author|date = |accessdate = August 19, 2015|website = Google Books|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> He is currently an [[Emeritus Professor]] at the [[University of Queensland]], where he taught until 1997. In 1999, a festschrift volume was produced “by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description”: “The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston.”<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston|last = Collins|first = Peter and David A. Lee|publisher = John Benjamins Publishing|year = 1999|isbn = |location = |pages = }}</ref>
After graduating from Cambridge in 1960 with a First Class Honors degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, Huddleston earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1963 under the supervision of [[Michael Halliday]].<ref name="Curriculum Vitae">{{cite book|last1=Collins|first1=Peter|last2=Lee|first2=David|title=The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston|date=1999|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|location=Amsterdam, Netherlands|isbn=9789027230485|page=xvii|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2jGMEHkq7zwC&pg=PR17|accessdate=11 March 2016}}</ref> He held lectureships at the [[University of Edinburgh]], [[University College London]], and the [[University of Reading]]. He moved to The University of Queensland in 1969, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was the recipient of the first round of 'Excellence in Teaching' awards at the University of Queensland in 1988. In 1990 he was awarded a Personal Chair.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Cambridge_Grammar_of_the_English_Lan.html?id=RFtYPgAACAAJ|title = The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language: About the Author|date = |accessdate = August 19, 2015|website = Google Books|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> He is currently an [[Emeritus Professor]] at the [[University of Queensland]], where he taught until 1997. In 1999, a festschrift volume was produced “by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description”: “The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston.”<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston|last = Collins|first = Peter and David A. Lee|publisher = John Benjamins Publishing|year = 1999|isbn = |location = |pages = }}</ref>


Born in [[Cheshire]], England Huddleston and his wife Vivienne now reside on [[Sunshine Coast, Queensland|Sunshine Coast, near]] Noosa Heads in [[Sunshine Coast, Queensland|Queensland]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = A Student's Introduction to English Grammar|url = http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/SIEG/authors.html|website = www.lel.ed.ac.uk|accessdate = 2015-10-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series v. 141|last = |first = |publisher = |year = 2006|isbn = |location = |pages = 219–221|url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3417700103.html}}</ref>
Born in [[Cheshire]], England Huddleston and his wife Vivienne now reside on [[Sunshine Coast, Queensland|Sunshine Coast, near]] Noosa Heads in [[Sunshine Coast, Queensland|Queensland]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = A Student's Introduction to English Grammar|url = http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/SIEG/authors.html|website = www.lel.ed.ac.uk|accessdate = 2015-10-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series v. 141|last = |first = |publisher = |year = 2006|isbn = |location = |pages = 219–221|url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3417700103.html}}</ref>

Revision as of 22:37, 11 March 2016

Rodney D. Huddleston (born April 4, 1937) is a British linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English.

Huddleston is the primary author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (ISBN 0-521-43146-8), which presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English.

After graduating from Cambridge in 1960 with a First Class Honors degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, Huddleston earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1963 under the supervision of Michael Halliday.[1] He held lectureships at the University of Edinburgh, University College London, and the University of Reading. He moved to The University of Queensland in 1969, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was the recipient of the first round of 'Excellence in Teaching' awards at the University of Queensland in 1988. In 1990 he was awarded a Personal Chair.[2] He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, where he taught until 1997. In 1999, a festschrift volume was produced “by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description”: “The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston.”[3]

Born in Cheshire, England Huddleston and his wife Vivienne now reside on Sunshine Coast, near Noosa Heads in Queensland, Australia.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ Collins, Peter; Lee, David (1999). The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. p. xvii. ISBN 9789027230485. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. ^ "The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language: About the Author". Google Books. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  3. ^ Collins, Peter and David A. Lee (1999). The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston. John Benjamins Publishing.
  4. ^ "A Student's Introduction to English Grammar". www.lel.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  5. ^ Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series v. 141. 2006. pp. 219–221.

Partial bibliography

  • Huddleston, Rodney D. (1971). The Sentence in Written English: A Syntactic Study Based on an Analysis of Scientific Texts, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-08062-2.
  • Huddleston, Rodney D. (1976). An Introduction to English Transformational Syntax, Longman. ISBN 0-582-55062-9.
  • Huddleston, Rodney D. (1984). Introduction to the Grammar of English, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22893-X.
  • Huddleston, Rodney D. (1988). English Grammar: An Outline, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-32311-8.
  • Huddleston, Rodney D., and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43146-8.
Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article on a Scottish linguist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rodney_Huddleston&oldid=709604058"