The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of English to appear for over fifteen years, a period which has seen immense developments in linguistic ...

The surge in descriptive projects has been accompanied by demand for ... as well as wider discussion of the role of typology in grammar-writing. The presentations may take either a language-specific ...

This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries.