Rodney D. Huddleston (born 4 April 1937) is a British linguist and

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specializing in the study and description of English. Huddleston is the primary author of ''

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'' (''CGEL'') is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was pub ...

'' (), which presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English. After graduating from Cambridge in 1960 with a First Class Honors degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, Huddleston earned his

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in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1963 under the supervision of Michael Halliday. He held lectureships at the University of Edinburgh,

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, and the University of Reading. He moved to The University of Queensland in 1969, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was the recipient of the first round of 'Excellence in Teaching' awards at the University of Queensland in 1988. In 1990 he was awarded a Personal Chair. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, where he taught until 1997. In 1999, a ' volume was produced "by colleagues past and present, friends and admirers of Rodney Huddleston, in order to honour his consistently outstanding contribution to grammatical theory and description": ''The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston''. Born in Cheshire, England, Huddleston and his wife Vivienne now reside on

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, near Noosa Heads in

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References

Partial bibliography

* Huddleston, Rodney D. (1971). ''The Sentence in Written English: A Syntactic Study Based on an Analysis of Scientific Texts'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D. (1976). ''An Introduction to English Transformational Syntax'', Longman. . * Huddleston, Rodney D. (1984). ''Introduction to the Grammar of English'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D. (1988). ''English Grammar: An Outline'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D., and

Geoffrey K. Pullum Geoffrey Keith Pullum (; born 8 March 1945) is a British and American linguist specialising in the study of English. He is Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Pullum is a co-author of ''The Cambridge Gram ...

(2002). ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', Cambridge University Press. . * Huddleston, Rodney D.; Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Reynolds, Brett (2022). ''A student's introduction to English grammar'' (2 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-009-08574-8.

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