Innovations and challenges in grammar /

"Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed and immutable. In doing so, it deconstructs the notion of 'correctness' to show how grammar changes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarthy, Michael, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2020.
Edition:1st.
Series:Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Where we came from: 1. Introduction
  • 2. Grammar: Where did it all come from?
  • 3. Eras of change and innovation: The eighteenth and nineteenth century
  • Part II. Innovations and Challenges: 4. Grammar and the public, grammar for ELT
  • 5. Innovation: Major new grammatical theories
  • 6. Grammar as data: corpus linguistics
  • 7. Grammar and discourse
  • 8. Grammar, language teaching and language learning
  • 9. Grammar at large.