[General Linguistics] The Handbook of English Linguistics - Aarts McMahon.pdf

Review
"This insight-giving and often thought-provoking handbook was compiled with an eye to representing research on English linguistics that is currently productive and of wider theoretical significance .. .[The book] is a major step in bringing together many recent advances in theoretical linguistics with empirical evidence from the structures of one language." (Language, December 2008)

"The Handbook of English Linguistics maintains the reputation of the series of Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. It is not likely to be superseded as the standard reference work on English linguistics in the theoretical sense for some time to come." (World Englishes, August/November 2008)

"I am constantly on the lookout for texts which give self-contained introductions to sub-areas of the subject and discuss interesting questions within those areas, and can be approached by students for whom linguistics is only a small part of their curriculum, with the consequence that they are not able to read much in the way of primary research. Most of the chapters in the book fulfil these requirements ... .The book is a success." (Linguist, February 2007)

"An invaluable contribution to English Linguistics. The international cast of authors is impressive—most of them familiar names with stellar reputations ... .This handbook will be an indispensable resource for any program dealing with English linguistics. It consists of an impressive collection of articles." (Journal of English Lingustics, June 2007)

"[This] volume does a good job of balancing the 'new and exciting' with the 'well accepted' solutions to various questions being researched … .All of the articles are well written and try and present a non-theory-specific point of view." (Linguist, January 2008)

"[The book] introduces readers to various topics of English linguistics accessible to both scholars and advanced students." (L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 2007)

"The handbook is cohesive in its consistent depth of attention to variation, description, and history ... a comprehensive picture of today's English ... Recommended. Upper division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." (CHOICE)

"This addition to the admirable series of Blackwell Handbooks contains thirty-one articles of about twenty to twenty-five pages by a distinguished set of contributors … [It] functions as a showcase for English linguistics, and as a map of the territory." (Linguistics)
"Just what the English Language needs at the start of the twenty-first century: an authoritative guide to the literature, balancing solid scholarship with openness, clarity, wisdom, and breadth – pronunciation, education, linguistic theory, and much else. Highly recommended!" (Richard Hudson, University College London)
Review
"Bas Aarts and April McMahon have assembled a star-studded cast of linguistic experts who have produced a state-of-the art compendium on all the major aspects of the modern English Language."
–Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg
"Both as editors and as authors, Professor Aarts and Professor McMahon have achieved something quite remarkable with this splendid Handbook. They have divided the complex field of English linguistics into the thirty or so areas of greatest present interest, and from a truly international cast have selected the most expert scholars in the world to tackle them."
–Randolph Quirk, Professor The Lord Quirk of Bloomsbury, FBA
“A very good resource on major areas of English linguistics, among them phonetics and phonology, syntax, corpus linguistics and data collection, morphology, variation, and discourse.”
–Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University