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

English language English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...

and of

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. He was Quain Professor of English language and literature at the

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from 1983 to 1990 and Director of the

Survey of English Usage The Survey of English Usage was the first research centre in Europe to carry out research with corpora. The Survey is based in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London. History The Survey of English Usage wa ...

, 1983–96. With

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

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 g ...

'' (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." Novelist

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has identified Greenbaum as having groomed and abused her when she was a child.

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 more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. His main academic interests we ...

, 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