This edited collection is about the application of English grammar and
specialises in 'functional' and'corpus' approaches, approaches which are
increasingly recognised as providing significant insights into English language
in action. It aims to stimulate interest and understanding of grammar as an
applied tool not just for grammarians or language learners, but for all those
interested in how language is organized to shape our view of events in the
world.As the chapters in this book show, functional and corpus approaches allow
us to make observations that would not be amenable through more traditional
forms of grammatical analysis. They also illustrate how researchers can
fruitfully bring together corpus and functional