Rodney Huddleston Rodney D. Huddleston is a linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English . Huddleston is the primary author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( ISBN 0-521-43146-8 ) , which presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English . He earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Michael Halliday . He is currently an Emeritus Professor at 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 . Born in Manchester , Huddleston 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 0-521-08062-2 . Huddleston , Rodney D. ( 1976 ) . An Introduction to English Transformational Syntax , Longman . ISBN 0-582-55061-1 . Huddleston , Rodney D. ( 1984 ) . Introduction to the Grammar of English , Cambridge University Press . ISBN 0-521-22893-X . Huddleston , Rodney D. ( 1988 ) . English Grammar : An Outline , Cambridge University Press . ISBN 0-521-32311-8 . Huddleston , Rodney D. , and Geoffrey K. Pullum ( 2002 ) . The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language , Cambridge University Press . ISBN 0-521-43146-8 . External links Press release on release of the CGEL from the University of Queensland Categories : Australian linguists | British linguists | People from Manchester | University of Edinburgh alumni 