Bas Aarts

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His publications include Small Clauses in English: the nonverbal types (1992, Mouton de Gruyter), The verb in contemporary English (1995, edited with Charles F. Meyer, Cambridge University Press), English syntax and argumentation (1997/2001/2008, Palgrave Macmillan), Investigating natural language: working with the British component of the International Corpus of English (2002, with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis, John Benjamins), Fuzzy grammar: a reader (2004, edited with David Denison, Evelien Keizer and Gergana Popova, Oxford University Press), The handbook of English linguistics (2006, edited with April McMahon), Syntactic gradience: the nature of grammatical indeterminacy (2007, Oxford University Press), and Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011, Oxford University Press), as well as many articles in books and journals. With David Denison and the late Richard Hogg he is one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics.