Graham Burton
@grahburton.bsky.social
Linguist, Uni Bozen-Bolzano (IT), interested in corpus linguistics, ELT, EAP, multilingualism. Assistant ed, Journal of EuroSLA. Written ELT materials for various publishers.
New book with Routledge! https://tinyurl.com/5f6aemh4
New book with Routledge! https://tinyurl.com/5f6aemh4
Wow, looks like Deepl had something to get off his/her/its chest, and just went with it after providing the initial translation …
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wow, looks like Deepl had something to get off his/her/its chest, and just went with it after providing the initial translation …
Pleased to announce that my 2023 book, 'Grammar in ELT and ELT materials' will soon be available in paperback!
It should be out in mid January, and the publishers are offering a 30% discount (using code DELPAP30) until the end of February. Details here! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
It should be out in mid January, and the publishers are offering a 30% discount (using code DELPAP30) until the end of February. Details here! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
September 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Pleased to announce that my 2023 book, 'Grammar in ELT and ELT materials' will soon be available in paperback!
It should be out in mid January, and the publishers are offering a 30% discount (using code DELPAP30) until the end of February. Details here! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
It should be out in mid January, and the publishers are offering a 30% discount (using code DELPAP30) until the end of February. Details here! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
For exactly the same reasons, I wonder how viable our current way of doing academic writing is in the medium to long term.
(Cartoon found online: I don't know who to credit it to, sorry.)
(Cartoon found online: I don't know who to credit it to, sorry.)
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
For exactly the same reasons, I wonder how viable our current way of doing academic writing is in the medium to long term.
(Cartoon found online: I don't know who to credit it to, sorry.)
(Cartoon found online: I don't know who to credit it to, sorry.)
One of my favourite findings was the difference between 'a load of' and 'loads of', with the former being massively favoured when talking pejoratively, e.g., 'a load of b******s'. Book here: www.candlinandmynard.com/englishgramm...
May 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
One of my favourite findings was the difference between 'a load of' and 'loads of', with the former being massively favoured when talking pejoratively, e.g., 'a load of b******s'. Book here: www.candlinandmynard.com/englishgramm...
@eltresearch.bsky.social and I looked at both 'a … of' and '[plural] of …' quantifiers in our new book based on an analysis of the Spoken BNC2014. Neither 'a ton of' or 'tons of' made it into our frequency-based tables, surprisingly given your analysis shows they are still used frequently in UK Eng
May 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
@eltresearch.bsky.social and I looked at both 'a … of' and '[plural] of …' quantifiers in our new book based on an analysis of the Spoken BNC2014. Neither 'a ton of' or 'tons of' made it into our frequency-based tables, surprisingly given your analysis shows they are still used frequently in UK Eng