2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print.
The
Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts,
Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative
critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English
language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied
to it.
Sean Wallis’s monograph
Statistics
in Corpus Linguistics Research focuses on a single perspective.
Whereas ‘statistics’ is frequently associated with bottom-up ‘number-crunching’,
he shows how a cyclic methodology in Corpus Linguistics, with the
linguist in control, may be combined with statistically sound argumentation.
Such a perspective places a greater burden on the linguist, however.