Graeme Kennedy
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MA (NZ), PhD CertTESL (California)
Graeme Kennedy was Professor of Applied Lnguistics from 1982 until his retirement in 2004. He was director of the English Language Institute from 1982 – 1993, director of the Deaf Studies Research Unit from 1994 – 2001, and director of the New Zealand Dictionary Centre from 1997 to 2004.
His main research interests have been in second language acquisition theory, the corpus-based description of English, pedagogical grammar, Deaf Studies, including New Zealand Sign Language lexicography, and New Zealand English lexicography.
Selection of Publications
- ‘Quantification and the use of English: a case study of one aspect of the learner's task’ Applied Linguistics 8 (3), 1987: 264 286.
- “Between” and “Through”: The Company They Keep and the Functions They Serve’ in English Corpus Linguistics Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik. ed. K. Aijmer and B. Altenberg. London: Longman 1991
- ‘Preferred Ways of Putting Things with Implications for Language Teaching’ in Directions in Corpus Linguistics. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82 ed. J. Svartvik. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1992: 335 373
- A Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (General editor) Auckland: Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books. xlii + 755 pp., 1997
- An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics London: Addison-Wesley-Longman 1998: xii + 315 pp.
- ‘Lexical Borrowing from Maori in New Zealand English’ in Who’s Centric Now? The Present State of Post-colonial Englishes ed. B. Moore. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001: 59-81.
- ‘Variation in the Distribution of Modal Verbs in the British National Corpus’ in Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation ed. R. Reppen, D. Biber and S. Fitzmaurice. Philadelphia: John Benjamins (2002) 73-90
- 'Amplifier collocations in the British National Corpus: Implications for English language teaching'. TESOL Quarterly 37, 3, 2003, 467-488.
- Structure and Meaning in English: A Guide for Teachers. London: Pearson Longman. (2003) pp xvi+ 390.
- (with Tony Deverson) The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005). Pp xix + 1355