Sidney Greenbaum (31 December 1929 – 28 May 1996) was a British scholar of the

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and of

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. He was

Quain Professor Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College London, England. The title honours Richard Quain, who became Professor of Anatomy in 1832 at what would become University College, London. Quain left a legacy ...

of English language and literature at the

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from 1983 to 1990 and Director of the Survey of English Usage, 1983–96. With

Randolph Quirk Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, CBE, FBA (12 July 1920 – 20 December 2017) was a British linguist and life peer. He was the Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1968 to 1981. He sat as ...

and others, he wrote ''

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language ''A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language'' is a descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. It was first published by Longman in 1985. In 1991 it was called "The greate ...

'' (Longman 1985). He also wrote ''Oxford English Grammar'' (Oxford, 1996). Greenbaum studied at

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, London, and was a qualified minister of religion although he never held a paid ministerial position. According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' entry on Greenbaum, "In 1990 Greenbaum resigned the Quain chair at University College following his conviction in London of a number of charges of sexual assault on young boys."

Selected bibliography

;All cited to: *1970 *1972 (with

Geoffrey Leech Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of over 30 books and over 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English ...

, and Jan Svartvik). ''A Grammar of Contemporary English''. London: Longman. *1973 (with Randolph Quirk). ''A University Grammar of English''. London: Longman; *1985 (with Randolph Quirk, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik). ''A Comprehensive Grammar of the English'', Language. London: Longman. *1986 (with Janet Whitcut). ''The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers'' (3rd ed.). London: HMSO; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books; Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. *1988 *1988 (with Janet Whitcut). ''The Longman Guide to English Usage''. London: Longman. Bookclub hardback edition, London: Guild Publishing *1989 *1990 (with Randolph Quirk). *1991 ''An Introduction to English Grammar''. London: Longman. :*2013 republished: *1992 (associate editor). ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'', edited by T. McArthur. Oxford: Oxford University Press *1996 *1996 ''Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English''. Edition of commissioned papers. Oxford: Clarendon Press. *1996 Afterword. In ''South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users'', edited by Robert J. Baumgardner, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. *1996 (with Gerald Nelson and Michael Weitzman). "Complement Clauses in English." In ''Using Corpora for Language Research: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Leech'', edited by M. Short and J. A. Thomas, 6-91. London: Longman. *1996 (with Gerald Nelson). Introduction. ''World Englishes'' 15:1-3. *1996 (with Gerald Nelson). "The International Corpus of English (ICE) Project." ''World Englishes'' 15:5-17. *1996 (with Ni Yibin). "About the ICE Tagset." ''Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English'', edited by Sidney Greenbaum, 92–100. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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External links

UCL Survey of English Usage – Sydney Greenbaum Biography
Linguists from England 1929 births 1996 deaths Linguists of English Academics of University College London English Jews {{UK-linguist-stub