1st Edition

Innovations and Challenges in Grammar

By Michael Mccarthy Copyright 2020
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

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 over time thereby exposing the social and historical forces that mould and change usage. The questions that this book... Read more

Part I – Where we came from

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – Grammar: Where did it all come from?

Chapter 3 – Eras of change and innovation: The eighteenth and nineteenth century

Part II – Innovations and Challenges

Chapter 4 – Grammar and the public, grammar for ELT

Chapter 5 – Innovation: Major new grammatical theories

Chapter 6 – Grammar as data: corpus linguistics

Chapter 7 – Grammar and discourse

Chapter 8 – Grammar, language teaching and language learning

Chapter 9 – Grammar at large

Biography

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, and Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University.