Sidney Greenbaum
Sidney Greenbaum was a British scholar of the English language and of linguistics. He was Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1983 to 1990 and Director of the Survey of English Usage, 1983–96. With Randolph Quirk and others, he wrote A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. He also wrote the Oxford English Grammar.
Greenbaum studied at Jews' College, London, and was a qualified minister of religion although he never held a paid ministerial position. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Greenbaum, "In 1990 Greenbaum resigned the Quain chair at University College following his conviction in London of a number of charges of sexual assault on young boys." Novelist Naomi Alderman has identified Greenbaum as having groomed and abused her when she was a child.
Collections
Greenbaum's personal archive is held at University College London. The collection includes papers relating to his work, lecture notes, and working drafts of publications.Selected bibliography
;All cited to:- 1970
- 1972. A Grammar of Contemporary English. London: Longman.
- 1973. A University Grammar of English. London: Longman;
- 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English, Language. London: Longman.
- 1986. The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers. London: HMSO; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books; Boston: David R. Godine, 1988.
- 1988
- 1988. The Longman Guide to English Usage. London: Longman. Bookclub hardback edition, London: Guild Publishing
- 1989
- 1990.
- 1991 An Introduction to English Grammar. London: Longman
- 1992. The Oxford Companion to the English Language, edited by T. McArthur. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- 1996
- 1996 Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English. Edition of commissioned papers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 1996 Afterword. In South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users, edited by Robert J. Baumgardner, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- 1996. "Complement Clauses in English." In Using Corpora for Language Research: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Leech, edited by M. Short and J. A. Thomas, 6-91. London: Longman.
- 1996. Introduction. World Englishes 15:1-3.
- 1996. "The International Corpus of English Project." World Englishes 15:5-17.
- 1996. "About the ICE Tagset." Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English, edited by Sidney Greenbaum, 92–100. Oxford: Clarendon Press.