
By Susan E. Holt
My love affair (and it really is love) with linguistics began back as a nine year old watching “My Fair Lady” for the first time. After the initial romance, it was time to make a serious commitment and that came in the form of saying “I do” to a university place at Durham studying English Language and Linguistics. This marriage was solemnized in the presence of a holy book: “Analysing English Sentences” by Andrew Radford.
So my venture into the book began in the first week of university. The heaviest of all the books on our booklist, myself and my new linguistics friends quickly (and correctly) figured it must be important. During first year syntax, the red book was . . . → Read More: “Analysing English Sentences” – A. Radford
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