An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it.
Questions linguists study -- The study of sound : phonetics and phonology -- The study of words : morphology -- The study of sentence structure : syntax -- The study of meaning : semantics and pragmatics -- Studying language change -- Studying language variation, language in society -- Studying language in the brain -- After studying linguistics