P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Positions of Adjectives in English (OUP 2015), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001).

This little volume is learned, accessible, and delightful to read.

• Preface Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Grammar 3: Units 4: Words 5: The eight parts 6: Accidents 7: Inflectional categories 8: Speaking correctly 9: Utterances 10: Parts of utterances and their constructions 11: Derivations 12: Final comments Ancient writers referred to Guidance on background reading References Index of Greek and Latin terms General index

P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Positions of Adjectives in English (OUP 2015), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001).

This little volume is learned, accessible, and delightful to read.

• Preface Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Grammar 3: Units 4: Words 5: The eight parts 6: Accidents 7: Inflectional categories 8: Speaking correctly 9: Utterances 10: Parts of utterances and their constructions 11: Derivations 12: Final comments Ancient writers referred to Guidance on background reading References Index of Greek and Latin terms General index

P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Positions of Adjectives in English (OUP 2015), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001).

This little volume is learned, accessible, and delightful to read.

• Preface Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Grammar 3: Units 4: Words 5: The eight parts 6: Accidents 7: Inflectional categories 8: Speaking correctly 9: Utterances 10: Parts of utterances and their constructions 11: Derivations 12: Final comments Ancient writers referred to Guidance on background reading References Index of Greek and Latin terms General index