I've used a couple of Talmy's books in graduate grammar classes,
but never in undergraduate.  The English Grammar is an excellent
piece, but I wouldn't try it with my undergrads here.  By the way,
I also like his Functionalism and Grammar, which I used a couple
of years ago in an advanced grad grammar course in contrastive
analysis.  It worked very well, although even those students found
it demanding.

Herb Stahlke

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Another very interesting reference on English grammar -- for the
ambitious and not easily daunted -- is Talmy  Givon's 'English
Grammar:
A Function-Based Introduction', John Benjamins. It is a 2-volume
set
organized in outline form, with explanations and examples of
numerous
phenomena of English Grammar.

And then of course there is the massive 'A Comprehensive Grammar
of the
English Language', by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey
Leech
and Jan Svartvik (Longman).

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