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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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PART I Where we came from |
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1.1 The first challenge: defining grammar |
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1.2 The challenge of a historical perspective |
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1.4 English grammar and the ELT perspective |
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1.5 Innovation in grammar |
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1.7 Varieties and variation |
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2 Grammar: Where did it all come from? |
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2.2 Greek and Latin grammars |
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2.3 Antiquity beyond Europe |
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2.4 The Middle Ages: the Modistae and universal grammar |
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2.5 English grammar: Bullokar |
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2.6 Universal grammar again: The Port--Royal grammar |
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3 Eras of change and innovation: The 18th and 19th century |
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3.2 The 18th century: Enlightenment |
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3.4 Closing the century: the forgotten grammarians |
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3.5 The 19th century: new era, new grammars |
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3.7 Grammar and social class: William Cobbett |
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3.9 Ending the century: Sweet and Nesfield |
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3.12 Challenges: a summary |
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PART II Innovations and Challenges |
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4 Grammar and the public, grammar for ELT |
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4.2 Grammar and the public: usage manuals and handbooks |
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4.3 The outsider's perspective: reference grammars and language learning |
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4.4 Grammar for English language teaching |
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4.5 Structuralism: linguistic science meets the science of language teaching |
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4.6 Berlitz, James Joyce and me |
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4.7 New technologies, great events |
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5 Innovation: Major new grammatical theories |
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5.1 Noam Chomsky and his grammar |
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5.3 Competence and performance |
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5.4 Deep and surface structure |
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5.5 Acquisition of grammar |
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5.6 The plausibility of TG |
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5.7 Innovation in British grammar: J. R. Firth and the neo-Firthians |
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5.11 Language and society |
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5.12 Halliday's enduring influence |
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6 Grammar as data: Corpus linguistics |
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6.3 Grammar and frequency |
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6.4 Concordance, pattern and meaning |
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6.5 Spoken and written grammar |
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6.6 The get-passive: pattern and context |
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6.8 Grammaticalisation and the evidence of spoken corpora |
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6.9 Grammaticalisation: You know and I think |
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6.10 The significance of grammaticalisation |
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7.2 Discourse analysis and textual cohesion |
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7.3 Cohesion and speaking turns: conjunction |
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7.6 Grammar in spoken and written discourse analysis |
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7.7 Special discourses, special grammars |
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7.9 Grammar, discourse and co-construction |
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8 Grammar, language teaching and language learning |
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8.3 Outside the black box: from grammar to grammaring |
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8.4 Staying outside the black box: Learners, grammaring and corpora |
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9.1 Variety: standard and non-standard |
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9.4 Grammar and moral panic |
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9.5 Conclusion: re-wilding the grammatical environment |
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References |
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Index |
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