Resources and Reading

Online resources and further reading

Blogs

Grammarianism - A Blog for Teachers of English (Bas Aarts)

Slang Lexicographer - A Blog about Slang (Jonathon Green)

Separated by a Common Language - Observations on British and American English by an American Linguist in the UK (Lynne Murphy)

The Language Log - A General Blog about Language (Various authors)

Language: A Feminist Guide (Deborah Cameron)

Lingua Franca - Language and Writing in Academe (Various authors)

Johnson - Language Column at the Economist (Robert Lane Greene)

EngLangBlog - A Blog for A-Level English Language Students and Teachers (Dan Clayton)

Teaching resources

English Language Teaching Resources Archive at Queen Mary, University of London

A-level English Language Resources at Lancaster University

Sounds Familiar at the British Library

Corpus For Learning resources

Dictionaries

Aarts, B., S. Chalker and E. Weiner (2014) (2nd edition) Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Crystal, D. (2008) (6th edition) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Crystal, D. (2006) Words, Words, Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Leech, G. (2006) A Glossary of English Grammar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Leech, G., B. Cruickshank and R. Ivanic (2001) (2nd edition) An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage. London: Longman.

Peters, P. (2013) The Cambridge Dictionary of English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Swan, M. (2005) (3rd edition) Practical English Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Trask, R. L. (1999) (2nd edition) Language: The Basics. London: Routledge.

Trask, R. L. (2000) The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar. London: Penguin.

Trask, R. L. (2007) (2nd edition) Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge (ed. Peter Stockwell).

Encyclopedias

Asher, R. E. (ed.) (1993) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Bright, W. (ed.) (1992) International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, K. (ed.) (2006) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier.

Collinge, N. E. (ed.) (1989) An Encyclopedia of Language. London: Routledge.

Crystal, D. (2010) (3rd edition) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, D. (2003) (2nd edition) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McArthur, T., J. Lam-McArthur and L. Fontaine (eds.) (2018) (2nd edition) The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McArthur, T. (ed.) (2005) The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language (with Roshan McArthur). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Grammars and other books on the English language

Aarts, B. (2011) Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aarts, B. (2011) English Grammar: All You Need to Know. (This is a concise version of the item above, available on Amazon only.)

Aarts, F. and J. Aarts (1982) English Syntactic Structures: Functions and Categories in Sentence Analysis. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Aarts, B., A. McMahon and L. Hinrichs (eds.)(2021)(second edition) The Handbook of English Linguistics. Hoboken NJ and Chichester: Wiley Publishers.

Aarts, B., J. Bowie and G. Popova (eds.) (2020) The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Biber, D., S. Johansson, G. Leech, S. Conrad and E. Finegan (1999) Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.

Biber, D., S. Conrad and G. Leech (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.

Crystal, D. (2006) The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate Shot and Left. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Crystal, D. (2017) Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar. London: Profile Books.

Culpeper, J., F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak and T. McEnery (2018) (eds) (2nd edition) English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Greenbaum, S. and R. Quirk (1990) A Student’s Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman. (This is a condensed version of Quirk et al. 1985.)

Huddleston, R. (1984) Introduction to the Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Huddleston, R. and G. K. Pullum et al. (2002) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Huddleston, R. and G. K. Pullum (2022) (2nd edition) A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (This book is based on Huddleston and Pullum et al. 2002.)

Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartvik (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

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