Reading for a book exam -nostalgia

Apr 06, 2014 00:47

After ten years I'm revisiting English Philology, my minor, and beginner's course materials. I'm loving A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Huddleston, Pullum). It's lovely and accessible and corrects a lot of inaccuracies in traditional grammar. I was rather disheartened to see how bad the user reviews on GoodReads and Amazon are. People are too stupid to understand that A Student's Introduction to English Grammar is not a prescriptive grammar manual, and somehow that ends up as being Huddleston and Pullum's fault.

This book is for linguistics students, people! Not for ESL students! Change your attitude and this will be the best linguistics intro you'll ever read!

language, books

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