Notes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction 1 Lars Hinrichs, Bas Aarts, and April McMahon Section 1: Methodology 5 2 Description and Theory 7 Kersti Börjars 3 English Corpus Linguistics 29 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Laura Rosseel 4 Experimental Approaches 45 Lauren Squires 5 English Grammar Writing 63 Andrew R. Linn 6 Data Collection 81 Charles F. Meyer and Gerald Nelson Section 2: Syntax 103 7 English Word Classes and Phrases 105 Bas Aarts and Liliane Haegeman 8 Clause Types 131 Peter Collins 9 Complements and Adjuncts 145 Alexander Bergs 10 Tense in English 163 Laura A. Michaelis 11 Aspect and Aspectuality 183 Robert I. Binnick 12 Mood and Modality in English 207 Ilse Depraetere and Susan Reed 13 Information Structure 229 Martin Hilpert 14 Current Changes in English Syntax 249 Christian Mair and Geoffrey N. Leech 15 Constructions in English Grammar 277 Hans C. Boas 16 Syntactic Variation in English: A Global Perspective 299 Bernd Kortmann Section 3: Phonetics and Phonology 323 17 English Phonetics 325 Jennifer Nycz 18 English Phonology and Morphology 345 Samuel K. Ahmed, Samuel Andersson, and Bert Vaux 19 Prosodic Phonology 365 Michael Hammond 20 Intonation 385 Francis Nolan 21 Phonological Variation: A Global Perspective 407 Paul Foulkes Section 4: Lexis and Morphology 441 22 English Words 443 Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell 23 Compounds and Minor WordFormation Types 463 Laurie Bauer 24 Productivity 483 Ingo Plag 25 Lexical Semantics 501 Éva Kardos 26 English Lexicography: A Global Perspective 525 Stefan Dollinger Section 5: Discourse, Styles, and Usage 547 27 Speaking and Writing English 549 Jim Miller and Andreea S.

Calude 28 English on Social Media 569 Brook Bolander 29 Gender, Sexuality, and the English Language 585 Evan Hazenberg 30 Language and Literature: Stylistics 601 Peter Stockwell 31 English Usage: Prescription and Description 615 Pam Peters 32 Mobility and the English Language 637 Amelia Tseng and Lars Hinrichs Index 653.