at least as Chomskyans envisage it. The Construction Grammar people would take it in their stride, asexactlythe sort of thing that human languages do all the time: for Chomskyans and their ilk, it’s a mystery, to be “solved” with more epicycles. ...
their significance as social history, and their existence as almost the only portraits of working people in London through four centuries, it astonishes me that there has been little attention paid to this subject and so I have set out to reclaim this devalued cultural tradition. […]...
In Brit Universities, it is quite rare for students to be drawn ‘locally’; I even wouldn’t particularly expect Essex students to be from S.E. England. The Uni has strong Computing and Engineering Departments, which draw students nationally. In my digs in the first year, over half my f...