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The fifth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage has recently been published by OUP. I was happy to talk to Bryan Garner who was declared a “genius” by the late David Foster Wallace about what it means to write a usage dictionary.
2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print.
The Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied to it.
Sean Wallis’s monograph
Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research focuses on a single perspective. Whereas ‘statistics’ is frequently associated with bottom-up ‘number-crunching’, he shows how a cyclic methodology in Corpus Linguistics, with the linguist in control, may be combined with statistically sound argumentation. Such a perspective places a greater burden on the linguist, however.