Gerald NELSON
Emeritus Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.(NUI, Dublin)
Teaching
ENGE1520 Grammatical Structure of English
ENGE2820 Introduction to Semantics & Pragmatics
ENGE5450 Corpus Linguistics
Research Interests
English grammar; corpus linguistics; World Englishes; the history of English; the history of linguistics
Selected Publications
Major Publications
2016
An Introduction to English Grammar. 4th edition. Routledge. (with Sidney Greenbaum).
2010
English: An Essential Grammar. 2nd edition. Routledge.
2002
Exploring Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English. Benjamins. (with Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts).
Selected Publications
in press
World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics. In Ee Ling Low & Anne Pakir (eds) World Englishes: Re-thinking Paradigms. Routledge. (with Gabriel Ozon).
2014
The circle of English: An exploration of the core and periphery of world Englishes. In Eugene Green & Charles F. Meyer (eds) The Variabiity of Current World Englishes. De Gruyter. pp. 99-115.
2012
Particle Verbs in African Englishes: Nativization and Innovation. In Marianne Hundt & Ulrike Gut (eds) Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide. Benjamins. pp.197-213. (with Ren Hongtao).
2011
Philippine English among others: An exploration of grammatical 'keywords'in the ICE Philippines corpus. In Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista, (ed.) Studies in Philippine English: Exploring the Philippine Component of the International Corpus of English. Manila: Anvil Press. pp. 201-22. (with Ren Hongtao)
