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What are the contemporary schools of linguistics?
Which of them are more influential and which are more promising?
Which schools do the following books on English grammars belong to:
Huddleston & Pullum (2002), The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
McCawley (2nd ed., 1998), The Syntactic Phenomena of English
Quirk et al. (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis is an excellent book for getting an overview of many distinct paradigms in modern linguistics. Indeed, the introduction says that that is its aim.
It includes chapters on a variety of modern approaches to linguistics, including:
I can try to update this answer with a summary of each approach.
To quote the introduction:
The main objective of this handbook is to have current influential approaches to linguistic analysis represented and to provide the reader with a convenient means of comparing and evaluating the various approaches.
