My posts on this blog are largely on the Japanese language (thus far), so that some of you may think that I am uninterested in English (or else I am not trained as a specialist of English). In fact, I have been studying, thinking about, and writing about English, and I hope to develop a career-long interest in various aspects of that language. If you are a college student majoring in English, let me recommend that you read Professors Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum's (2005) A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Cambridge University Press) for a start. To my knowledge, it is one of the best student textbooks for English grammar. I learned a lot. (For Japanese students: この本には『ケンブリッジ現代英語文法入門』という邦訳があります。横浜国立大学の高橋邦年先生が監訳されたものですが、申し分のない完成度です。英語で読むのが大変であればこの邦訳もお薦めです。）
