Colloquial English

Structure and Variation

Andrew Radford (University of Essex)

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English

Cambridge University Press
14 June 2018

Usage & grammar guides; Sociolinguistics; Dialect, slang & jargon; Grammar, syntax

Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and largely unreported types of clause structure. Andrew Radford debunks the myth that colloquial English has a substandard, simplified grammar, and shows that it has a coherent and complex structure of its own. The book develops a theoretically sophisticated account of structure and variation in colloquial English, advancing an area that has been previously investigated from other perspectives, such as corpus linguistics or conversational analysis, but never before in such detail from a formal syntactic viewpoint.

By: Andrew Radford (University of Essex)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 158
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9781108428057
ISBN 10: 1108428053
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 14 June 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue; 1. Background; 2. Topics; 3. Complementisers; 4. How come?; Epilogue.

Andrew Radford is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex. He has written nine books on syntactic theory and English syntax, including Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English (Cambridge, 1997), Minimalist Syntax (Cambridge, 2004) and Analysing English Sentences (Cambridge, 2016).

Reviews for Colloquial English: Structure and Variation

'Lucid, magisterial, encyclopaedic; it covers a huge amount of material and makes sense of horrendously complex data.' Neil Smith, University College London 'Radford demonstrates convincingly that colloquial English is as theoretically interesting and descriptively challenging as standard English. Expressing yourself informally does not exempt you from the constraints of Universal grammar.' Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo