Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.

The volume presents the author’s articles written in the last fifteen years, dealing with the interaction between syntax, functional sentence perspective (inf

English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); posse

Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.