The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books with OUP include Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (OUP, 2004), Syntactic Gradience (2007), Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011), The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2nd edition 2014) and How to Teach Grammar (2019). He is a founding editor of the journal English Language andLinguistics.Jill Bowie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Survey of English Usage, University College London, where she previously worked on the AHRC-funded projects 'The changing verb phrase in present-day British English' and 'Teaching English grammar in schools'. Her research interests include recent change in English and the grammar of spoken discourse. She has co-authored papers with Survey colleagues on clause fragments and on changes in the English verb phraseGergana Popova is Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her interests are in theoretical linguistics, specifically morphology and its interfaces, and lexical semantics. She is the co-editor, with Bas Aarts, David Denison, and Evelien Keizer, of Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (OUP, 2004), author of articles and book chapters, and co-author, with Andrew Spencer, of the forthcoming OUP monograph Periphrasis.