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.






