Innovations and Challenges in Grammartraces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how ''rules'' are anything but fixed and immutable. In doing so, it deconstructs the notion of ''correctness'' to show how grammar changes over time thereby exposing the social and historical forces that mould and change usage. The questions that this book grapples with are:
Drawing upon over 50 years of research, Michael McCarthy draws upon both historical and modern grammars from across the globe to provide a multi-layered picture of world grammar.
This book will be useful to teachers and researchers of English as a first and second language, though the inclusion of examples from and occasional references to other languages (French, Spanish, Malay, Swedish, Russian, Welsh, Burmese, Japanese) is intended to broaden the appeal to teachers and researchers of other languages. It will be of use to final-year undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students as well as secondary and tertiary level teachers and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and grammar pedagogy.
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