Rodney D. Huddleston (born 4 April 1937) is a British

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and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English. Huddleston is the primary author of ''

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'' (''CGEL'') is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was publ ...

'' (), which presents a comprehensive

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of English. After graduating from Cambridge in 1960 with a First Class Honors degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, Huddleston earned his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the

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in 1963 under the supervision of

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. He held lectureships at the

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, and the

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. He moved to The University of Queensland in 1969, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was the recipient of the first round of 'Excellence in Teaching' awards at the University of Queensland in 1988. In 1990 he was awarded a Personal Chair. He is currently an

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at the

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, where he taught until 1997. In 1999, a ' volume was produced "by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description": ''The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston''. Born in

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, England, Huddleston and his wife Vivienne now reside on Sunshine Coast, near Noosa Heads in

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References

Partial bibliography

* Huddleston, Rodney D. (1971). ''The Sentence in Written English: A Syntactic Study Based on an Analysis of Scientific Texts'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D. (1976). ''An Introduction to English Transformational Syntax'', Longman. . * Huddleston, Rodney D. (1984). ''Introduction to the Grammar of English'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D. (1988). ''English Grammar: An Outline'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D., and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2002). ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D.; Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Reynolds, Brett (2022). ''A student's introduction to English grammar'' (2 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 157.

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978-1-009-08574-8.

External links

Press release on release of the ''CGEL''
from the University of Queensland 1937 births Living people Linguists from Australia Linguists from the United Kingdom Syntacticians Writers from Manchester Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Linguists of English University of Queensland faculty Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy {{england-linguist-stub