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>CGEL Is probably either Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language from 1985 or The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language from 2002. I have no idea wh

• thaumasiotes 2y ago
  Cambridge. The abbreviation is conventional. Does it matter to you?
  • ziddoap 2y ago
    >The abbreviation is conventional. I don't know a lot about language stuff like this, but the conversation here interested me. Your comment gave me an in on more reading, so I googled your acronym, because it was unfamiliar to me. I got 2 prominent results. Wikipedia gave me a disambiguation page. >Does it matter to you? It matters to me because I wanted to know what you were talking about... Maybe follow up with some more learning myself. Sorry. I'll try to learn the acronyms for fields I'm not familiar with prior to getting interested in them next time.
    • thaumasiotes 2y ago
      > Your comment gave me an in on more reading I love reading from it, but you might want to know that it's an 1842-page reference work, so reading the whole thing for fun might take a while. Mostly I use it if I want to look up how it treats some phenomenon that's caught my interest. So far I've always been able to find a discussion of whatever it was that I wanted to look up, which is a testament to both the quality of the treatment and the quality of the index.