A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet

Andrew Radford is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex. He has written nine books on syntactic theory and English syntax, including Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English (Cambridge, 1997), Minimalist Syntax (Cambridge, 2004) and Analysing English Sentences (Cambridge, 2016).

Prologue; 1. Background; 2. Topics; 3. Complementisers; 4. How come?; Epilogue.