P H MatthewsP. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of th Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Positions of Adjectives in English, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey, Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction, and A Short History of Structural Linguistics. Read More Read Less