Professor Rodney Huddleston is a linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English.

Rodney Huddleston is the primary author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (ISBN 0521431468), which presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English.

He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Queensland, where he taught until 1997. He previously held lectureships at the University of Edinburgh, University College London, and the University of Reading. Professor Huddleston holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge(?).

Born in Manchester, he now resides on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Partial bibliography

• Huddleston, Rodney D. (1971). The sentence in written English; a syntactic study based on an analysis of scientific texts, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521080622.
• Huddleston, Rodney D. (1976). An introduction to English transformational syntax, Longman. ISBN 0582550611.
• Huddleston, Rodney D. (1984). Introduction to the grammar of English, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052122893X.
• Huddleston, Rodney D. (1988). English grammar : an outline, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521323118.
• Huddleston, Rodney D. and Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521431468.

External links

• Press release on release of the CGEL from the University of Queensland