English Grammar: Principles and Facts (2nd Edition)
This text gives broad, up-to-date coverage of English grammatical facts and related concepts of introductory linguistics, emphasizing argumentation and motivation for empirically-based grammatical analyses without theoretical debates. It treats the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, phonology, morphology, word classes, phrase structure analysis of both simple sentences and a variety of complex sentences, grammatical relations, and anaphora (pronouns and pronoun-like elements). The many changes in the second edition are almost all fine tunings. The few changes in theoretical approach bring some descriptions up-to-date.