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Faculty of English building, 9 West Road, Cambridge. The Faculty of English is a constituent part of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1914 as a Tripos within the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. It could be studied only as a 'Part I' of a degree course, alongside a 'Part II' either in medieval languages or from another ...
The Cambridge school is known for its emphasis on the "literariness of literature". [5] It has been described as a theory of reading rather than of rhetoric, writing or linguistic history. This is attributed to the view that the interpretation of meanings could only be generated through the interaction of a "master reader" with a text.
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]
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
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who inhabited Britain, Ireland and the extended Scandinavian world in the early Middle Ages (5th century to 12th century).
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language argues that English has a "weakly grammaticalized" gender, which is based only on pronoun agreement. This gender system involves two subsystems: one involving the distinctions between the personal pronouns he , she , and it and another involving the distinctions between the relative pronouns who and ...
[31] [30] Recent corpus data suggest that English dialects in Hong Kong, India, and Singapore use this epicene less than British English. [32] The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary include the following examples among the possible uses of singular they, which they note is not universally adopted by all ...
Michael Swan is a writer of English language teaching and reference materials. He graduated from University of Oxford with a bachelor's degree in modern foreign languages [1] and has later gone for a postgraduate research degree. [2] He is the founder of Swan School of English. [3]