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Opinion | Some Hear Grammar Don ts I Hear the Future of English

UCL Survey of English Usage, UCL

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.

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