English 433: Modern Grammar

The future of English has long been speculated about, and science fiction and fantasy novels and films offer multiple notions about what ...

We're shifting gears this week -- from historical English to the Englishes of today, from an emphasis on written language to one on spo...

Despite the efforts of those who actually study language, the notion of a "standard English," one to which we should constantl...

The history of African-American Vernacular English is not unlike that of other dialects of US English -- migration (although forced, and ...

The history of American English usage marks the most recent, and in some ways the most dramatic set of changes in English since the days ...

One might think that English grammar, even more than its lexicon, would be something that would have long been intrinsically understood, ...

In one particularly memorable episode of  Blackadder ,"  Ink and Incapability ," when the Prince Regent (played by Hugh Laurie)...

Every modern language seems to have its vital, foundational literary work: Italian has Dante's  Divine Comedy , Spanish has  Don Qui...

Lines from the poem are carved in runes on this cross. The land now known as England was originally inhabited by an unknown culture of...

One of the things that makes English so distinct from most of the other languages on the planet is its unusually inconsistent and unpredi...

Welcome to our class blog for ENGL 433, Modern Grammar, Fall 2016, here at Rhode Island College. This course, despite its official ...