Bas Aarts
@englishgrammar
Professor of English Linguistics, UCL Here, I post on (English) language topics. On Substack, I post on English Grammar: #grammar #syntax #parsing
New Substack post: 'Henry James's long sentences. Are they unreadable?' basaarts.substack.com/p/henry-jame...
Bookings open for the English Grammar Day on 29 June in the British Library. Do bring your students! Organised by: Bas Aarts @artshumsucl.bsky.social Jonnie Robinson @britishlibrary.bsky.social Charlotte Brewer @hertfordcollege.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/engli... #EnglishGrammarDay
Another daft grammar quiz. www.buzzfeed.com/audreyworboy... In the question below, none of the answers is correct. (And that's not even mentioning the outdated terminology.)
Are you an English teacher? Bring your students to the English Grammar Day on 29 June in the British Library. Organised by Bas Aarts @artshumsucl.bsky.social, Jonnie Robinson @britishlibrary.bsky.social and Charlotte Brewer @hertfordcollege.bsky.social Book here: events.bl.uk/events/engli...
New Substack post by Bas Aarts: Tricky Relative Clauses (2) basaarts.substack.com/p/tricky-rel... #EnglishGrammar #Grammar
Bookings are now open for the English Grammar Day 2026, which I co-organise with Jonnie Robinson at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social and Charlotte Brewer @ox.ac.uk. #EnglishGrammarDay Teachers, do bring your students! events.bl.uk/events/engli...
Dates in 2026 for the CPD courses 'English Grammar for Teachers' and 'Teaching English Grammar in Context'. You can book here: tinyurl.com/2xj43u9z tinyurl.com/y9c9ufrs
Save the date of the English Grammar Day 2026 on 29 June at the British Library in London. Bookings will open in due course. #grammar #EnglishGrammar #EnglishGrammarDay
New publication Recent grammatical change in English by Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Transmission, Change and Ideology, 2025, 505-535 www.academia.edu/145369089/Re...
Are you in India and are you thinking of studying at UCL? Come and see us at the UCL India Open Days in Mumbai, Bengaluru and New Dehli! www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
This really annoyed me in today’s UK press, a day before A-level results day
Great turnout at the 2025 #EnglishGrammarDay organised by UCL’s @uclenglishusage.bsky.social, @engfac.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social
New Substack post: On so-called adjective clauses: a label to avoid tinyurl.com/yc32zr4a #grammar #adjectiveclause #TeHirangaTangata #nzcurriculum
Come to this fabulous event, hosted by Charlotte Brewer, Jonnie Robinson and me on 7 July. tinyurl.com/36z77b29 #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar @blevents.bsky.social @engfacoutreach.bsky.social @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
Book now for the English Grammar Day! Teachers: do bring your GCSE and A-level students! www.ucl.ac.uk/english/engl... #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar @blevents.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @engfacoutreach.bsky.social @bethmalory.bsky.social @hwimbushenglish.bsky.social @robdrummond.bsky.social
New research chapter, just published: 'Verb Phrases as Attributive Nominal Modifiers' tinyurl.com/49crkbv4
New Substack post: 'Can adjective phrases function as Subject in a clause?' basaarts.substack.com/p/can-adject... #grammar #adjective
New Substack post: More on Predicative Complements: 'for' and 'as' basaarts.substack.com/p/more-on-pr... #grammar #EnglishGrammar
English Grammar Day is back for 2025! We're happy to announce we'll be returning to the British Library on 7 July with another great roster of speakers. The ticketing page will go live soon, so keep checking back for updates... #EnglishGrammarDay
New Substack post: What is a Predicative Complement? basaarts.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
New Substack post: 'Each' as a floating quantifier basaarts.substack.com/p/each-as-a-...
New Substack post: Which word class do 'possessive' words belong to? Adjectives, determinatives or pronouns? basaarts.substack.com/p/which-word...
New Substack Post Grammatical function: a relational concept basaarts.substack.com/p/grammatica...
By the same token jeremybutterfield.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/b... via @JemButterfield