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Traditional grammatical terminology

Glossary of English grammar terms.

Rodby, Judith, and W. Ross Winterowd. 2005.
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Traditional grammatical terminology.
Written for a class in the history of English at the University of Toronto. Contains a wealth of information and a useful index.

Wardhaugh, Ronald. 1995.
Understanding English grammar: A linguistic approach. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Other syntax textbooks

Borsley, Robert. 1999, 2nd edition.
Syntactic theory: A unified approach. London and New York: Arnold.

Cook, Vivian James, and Mark Newson. 1996, 2nd edition.
Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An introduction. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Recommended. The chapter on Minimalism is especially useful, and there is ample discussion of language acquisition issues.

Cowper, Elizabeth. 1992.
A concise introduction to syntactic theory: The Government-Binding approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Recommended.

Culicover, Peter. 1997.
Principles and Parameters: An introduction to syntactic theory. (Oxford books in linguistics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haegeman, Liliane. 1994, 2nd edition.
Introduction to Government & Binding theory. Cambridge: Blackwell.

Napoli, Donna Jo. 1993.
Syntax: Theory and problems. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Radford, Andrew. 1988.
Transformational syntax: A first course. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Recommended as an introduction to syntactic argumentation. The style can be grating.

Radford, Andrew. 1997.
Syntactic theory and the structure of English: A minimalist approach. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.