Professor Howard Jackson
Howard Jackson gained his PhD from Reading University, and his research interests are in English Grammar, Vocabulary and Lexicography. Howard Jackson has written eight books (for Longman and Routledge among others) and numerous articles on grammar, vocabulary and lexicography. An invited speaker at conferences all over Europe, he continues to enjoy an international reputation for his work.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) German & Associateship of King's College - King's College London
MA and PhD in Linguistics - University of Reading
Memberships
British Association for Applied Linguistics; European Association for Lexicography.
External examinerships at several universities in the UK and Hong Kong. QAA Subject Specialist for English (Language) and Linguistics. Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation.
Research
Descriptive linguistics, especially grammar/semantics, lexicology/lexicography and text/discourse analysis. The use of computer corpora for linguistic research, and computer-aided text analysis. Contrastive linguistics, especially English/German and English/South Asian languages.
Publications
Key Terms in Linguistics, Continuum, ISBN: 978-0-8264-8741-4, 2007.
Words, Meaning and Vocabulary, Second Edition, Continuum, ISBN: 978-0-8264-9018-6, 2007.
Good Grammar for Students , Sage, ISBN: 1412902029/37, 2005.
'Lexicography', Article 171 for Handbücher zur Sprach-und KommunikationswissenschaftVol 11 Morphology, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.1882-92, 2004.
Lexicography: an introduction, Routledge, ISBN: 0415231736, 2002.
Grammar and Vocabulary (Routledge English Language Introductions), Routledge, ISBN:041523171X, 2002.
Words, Meaning & Vocabulary: An introduction to modern English lexicology (with Etienne Ze Amvela), Cassell, ISBN: 0304703966, 2000.
The Nature and Functions of Language (with Peter Stockwell), Stanley Thornes, ISBN: 0748725806, 1996.
Practice in English Grammar, Viewbook 430 (Hypertext), Information Education, 1993.
Grammar and Meaning - a semantic approach to English grammar, Longman, ISBN: 0582028752, 1990.
Words and Their Meaning, Longman, ISBN:0582291542, 1988.
Discovering Grammar, Pergamon, ISBN: 0080315178, 1985.
Analyzing English, 2nd edition, Pergamon, ISBN: 0080286674, 1982.
Analyzing English, an introduction to descriptive linguistics, Pergamon, ISBN: 0080245560, 1980.
Articles and other publications
'Hungarian loanwords in the OED', Festschrift for Zsolt Lengyel forthcoming 'Lexicography', article for Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Vol 11/2 Morphology, Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
'Lexical Structure and Educational Failure', Alkalmazott Nyelvtudomány 1/1, pp.31-38, 2001.
Review of "J.Mountford, An Insight into English Spelling", Educational Review 52/1, pp.93-4, 2000.
(with Khaled Abdullah) '˜Idioms and the Language Learner: contrasting English and Syrian Arabic', Languages in Contrast 1(1), pp.85-109, 1999.
'How many words in YOUR dictionary?', English Today 55, Vol 14/3, pp.27-28, 1998.
Review of "J.Culpeper, History of English & E.Carney, English Spelling, Routledge Language Workbooks", Educational Review 50/2, p.200, 1998.
'Lexika auf dem Prüfstand', in Jung,U (ed) Praktische Handreichung für den Fremdsprachenlehrer, 2nd edn., Peter Lang, pp.156-161 (3rd edn. 2001), 1998.
'Corpus and Concordance: finding out about style', in Wichmann, A et al (eds), Teaching and Language Corpora, Longman, pp.224-239, 1997.
'Dictionary Criticism', Birmingham City University Faculty of Computing & Information Studies Research Papers Nos 2-8, pp.46-51, 1996.
'Expectations of Users of English and German Learners' Dictionaries', Ötödik Magyar Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Konferencia Veszprém 1995, pp.5-9, 1996.
'Learners' Dictionaries in Contrast: Langenscheidt and Longman', Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen 24, pp.58-74, 1995.
Review of "M.A.K.Halliday & J.R.Martin, Writing Science - Literacy and Discursive Power", Educational Review 46/3 pp.332-3, 1994.
'Grammar and Lexicology: A Case of Delicacy', Birmingham City University Papers in Language & Literature 1, pp.19-27, 1994.
'Computerized Text Analysis in Teaching' in Computers and Texts, Newsletter of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies, No.5, pp.6-7, 1993.
Review of "R.M.W.Dixon, A New Approach to English Grammar - On Semantic Principles", Journal of Linguistics 29/1, pp.163-167, 1993.
Review of "Allen D Grimshaw (ed), Conflict Talk", Reviewing Sociology 8/3, 1993.
'Language Description', modules for Distance learning course for teachers of children with speech and language disorders, University of Birmingham School of Education, 1990.
'OCP and the computer analysis of texts', Journal of Literary & Linguistic Computing 5/1, pp.86-88, 1990.
Review of "R.Wardhaugh, How Conversation Works", Reviewing Sociology 5/1, pp.45- 47, 1987.
'Grammatical features of North-Indian languages' (Ch.5, pp.66-74) & `The value of error analysis and its implications for teaching and therapy - with special reference to Panjabi learners' (Ch.7, pp.100-111), in S.Abudarham (ed), Bilingualism and the Bilingual, NFER-Nelson, 1987.
Review of "D.J.Young, Introducing English Grammar", System 14/3, pp.356-7, 1986.
Review of "Collins/Klett German-English English-German Dictionary", New German Studies 13/1, 1985. 'Grammar in the dictionary', in R.Ilson (ed), Dictionaries, Lexicography and Language Learning, British Council ELT Documents 120, Pergamon, pp.53-59, 1985.
'Making sense of the verb in English', Exeter Tapes E912, University of Exeter, 1982.
Editor, Journal of Midlands Association for Linguistic Study NS6, 1981.
'A text-linguistic approach to literary texts', Literary and Language Studies 1, Dept of English & Foreign Languages, Birmingham Polytechnic, 1981.
'The relation between the syntax and semantics of verbs in English and German', in C.V.J.Russ (ed), Contrastive Aspects of English and German, Julius Groos, pp.88-100, 1981.
'Pronunciation of English consonants by Indian learners', ELT Journal 35/4, pp.418-420, 1981.
'A comparison of sentence patterns in English and German', Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics XIII, pp.69-81, 1981.
'Contrastive analysis as a predictor of errors, with reference to Punjabi learners of English', in J.Fisiak (ed), Contrastive Linguistics and the Language Teacher, Pergamon, pp.195-205, 1981.
Editor, Journal of Midland Association for Linguistic Study NS5, 1980.
Review of "B.Gomes da Costa et al, German Language Attainment", Modern Languages LXI, 1980.
'Making sense of the verb in German: some suggested strategies', Exeter Tapes G843, University of Exeter, 1980.
'Bibliography of Indic languages, descriptive and contrastive studies', mimeo, 1980.
Editor, Journal of Midland Association for Linguistic Study NS4, 1979.
Review of "Jarmo Korhonen, Studien zu Dependenz, Valenz und Satzmodell, Teil 1", Journal of Linguistics 15/2, pp.347-351, 1979.
'Errors of Punjabi learners of English, a comparison of the grammars of Punjabi and English', CORE 3/3 (also in: ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 55, 1982, pp.69-91), 1979.
'German/English dictionaries and how to use them', Exeter Tapes G771, University of Exeter, 1979.
Review of "S.R.Fink, Aspects of a pedagogical grammar, based on case grammar and valence theory", Journal of Linguistics 14/2, pp.338-340, 1978.
'Valency Theory', Journal of the Midlands Association for Linguistic Study NS2, pp.83- 90, 1977.
Review of "Brockhaus Bildwörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch Deutsch-English", Modern Languages LVII/2, 1976.
'Contrastive linguistics - what is it?', ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 32, pp.1-32, 1976.
A contrastive study of verb subclassification in English and German, PhD thesis, University of Reading, 1976.
'What's in a bilingual dictionary?', Modern Languages LVI/2, pp.85-89, 1975.