Innovations and Challenges in Grammar

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Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed and immutable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I - Where we came from Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Grammar: Where did it all come from? Chapter 3 - Eras of change and innovation: The eighteenth and nineteenth century Part II - Innovations and Challenges Chapter 4 - Grammar and the public, grammar for ELT Chapter 5 - Innovation: Major new grammatical theories Chapter 6 - Grammar as data: corpus linguistics Chapter 7 - Grammar and discourse Chapter 8 - Grammar, language teaching and language learning Chapter 9 - Grammar at large