The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
AuthorRodney Huddleston
Geoffrey K. Pullum
SubjectComprehensive descriptive grammar of the English language
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
April 15, 2002
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages1860
ISBN0-521-43146-8
OCLC46641801

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (ISBN 0-521-43146-8) is a book that presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. A review in the journal Language and Literature, quoted by the grammar's publisher, says "It will, deservedly, replace its [1985] predecessor A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language."

Reviews

  • Aarts, Bas. (2004). Grammatici certant. Journal of Linguistics, 40, 365–382.
  • Leech, Geoffrey. (2004). A new Gray's Anatomy of English grammar. English Language and Linguistics, 8 (1), 121–147.

It also won the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America in 2004.


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