Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging
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