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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL [n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times. [1]
For some time, Huddleston ran a project under Halliday in the Communications Research Centre at The University of London called the “OSTI Programme in the Linguistic Properties of Scientific English.” [5] (OSTI was the UK government's Office for Scientific and Technical Information.) [6] As a student of Halliday's, Huddleston was a proponent of Systemic Functional Grammar, [5] but as his ...
Geoffrey Keith Pullum (/ ˈ p ʊ l əm /; born 8 March 1945) is a British and American linguist specialising in the study of English.Pullum has published over 300 articles and books on various topics in linguistics, including phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and philosophy of language.
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Quirk et al., published in 1985 The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language by Huddleston and Pullum, published in 2002 Topics referred to by the same term
Payne, John, and Rodney Huddleston. (2002) "Nouns and Noun Phrases." Chap. 5 of Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43146-8. Quirk, Randolph, et al. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow, Essex: Longman. ISBN 0-582-51734-6
Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum: The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. 1842 pages. [59] 2006. Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy: Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide. 973 pages. [60] 2011. Bas Aarts: Oxford Modern English Grammar. 410 pages.
The English subjunctive is realized as a finite but tenseless clause.Subjunctive clauses use a bare or plain verb form, which lacks any inflection.For instance, a subjunctive clause would use the verb form "be" rather than "am/is/are" and "arrive" rather than "arrives", regardless of the person and number of the subject.
[5]: 71 This analysis was developed in a 1962 grammar by Barbara M. H. Strang [5]: 73 and in 1972 by Randolph Quirk and colleagues. [5]: 74 In 1985, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language appears to have been the first work to explicitly conceive of determiner as a distinct lexical category. [5]: 74