Lynn Zhang and I have a paper in the soon-to-appear volume New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research. The book is now available on advance orders (alas, not to customers in the US yet), at a whopping …
Research
Collaboration
It’s wonderful to co-publish with a former graduate student! Difei (Lynn) Zhang and I collaborated on a survey of grammar items that are still listed as ‘bad grammar’ in many style guides or are presented …
Discourse Syntax Book Release
October 27, 2022, was the official release date for Discourse Syntax — English Grammar Beyond the Sentence, published by Cambridge University Press! I’m thrilled to see Discourse Syntax out in the world (with some delay …
The Power of Alumni Giving
I’m delighted to have my new book (to be published in 8 days!) and my collaboration with dissertator and graphic designer extraordinaire Difei (Lynn) Zhang featured as an example of “The Power of Alumni Giving” …
A cover, a cover!
Cambridge University Press has sent the final cover of my new book, co-authored with Heidrun Dorgeloh, which will come out in the fall. I’m in love with the artwork by Lynn Zhang, which is supposed …
Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
Congratulations to Dr. Difei (Lynn) Zhang, who defended her dissertation (“Flipping those pages, swiping that screen: a corpus-based analysis of the digital transformation of the news register”) today! In her dissertation Dr. Zhang investigated the …
“Grammar is not your enemy”
I had the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite topics with Emily Auerbach on Wisconsin Public Radio.
7th BICLCE Conference
I had a great time at the 7th Biennial International Conference for the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE, ruthlessly pronounced “Bicycle”) at the University of Vigo in Spain, where I gave a plenary lecture on …
5th Prescriptivism Conference
Just back from presenting the Grammar Badgers project at the 5th Prescriptivism Conference, hosted by Brigham Young University in Utah from June 22-24, 2017. The conference touched on topics such as the influence of style guides, …
“Bad Grammar” student symposium
ELL graduate students in my “Bad Grammar” seminar presented their research (9 posters and 5 talks) in an end-of-term symposium on April 27. Thanks to everyone who came and helped making the day a success!
Linguistic Lunch Hour with Trini Stickle
It was my great pleasure this week to host Professor Trini Stickle (Western Kentucky University), an alumna of our Ph.D. program in English Language and Linguistics. Trina and I talked about our joint research on …