July 10, 2019


Richard Hudson is a British linguist and a retired professor.

Richard Hudson Quick Facts

Profile

  • Birth Name: Richard Anthony Hudson
  • AKA: Richard Anthony "Dick" Hudson; Richard (Dick) Hudson;  Dick Hudson; Richard Hudson
  • Date of Birth: September, 18 1939
  • Place of Birth: Sussex, England, United Kingdom
  • Zodiac Sign: Virgo
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Nationality: British
  • Father: John Pilkington Hudson (1910 – 2007)
  • Mother: Gretta Hudson née Heath (1910-1989)
  • Siblings: 2
  1. Brother-John Colin Hudson (1938 – 2004)
  2. Brother- George Bryan Stephens Heath
  • Spouse: Gaynor Evans
  • Children: 2
  1. Daughter - Lucy
  2. Daughter-  Alice
  • Alma Mater: Loughborough Grammar School, Leicestershire; Corpus Christi College; Cambridge, School of Oriental and African Studies
  • Richard Hudson is known for: his theory of Word Grammar.

Quotes

“Sociolinguists don’t set out to produce Grand Theories, so there are no schools of sociolinguistics. They’re also very self-critical on matters of method and data, and are forever wishing that their sociology was better. There are theories, but most sociolinguists are rather down-to-earth people with rather practical concerns and not much time for theory. At this stage in its development the subject probably has the right priorities—mainly collecting and cataloguing fairly low-level data.” - Richard Hudson, Interview with Richard Hudson by Joseph Hilferty

Major Works

English Complex Sentences: An Introduction to Systematic Grammar (1971)
Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar (1976)
Sociolinguistics (1980)
Word Grammar (1984a)
Introduction to Linguistics (1984b)
English Word Grammar (1990)
Teaching Grammar: A Guide for the National Curriculum (1992)
Word Meaning (1995)
English Grammar (1998)
Language Networks: The New Word Grammar (2007)
An Introduction to Word Grammar (2010)
Oxford Teaching Guides: How to Teach Grammar (2019)

Did You Know?

  • Richard Hudson is the second child born to John Pilkington Hudson and Mary Gretta Hudson.
  • His father was a horticulturalist and bomb-disposal officer.
  • Apart from staying in New Zealand from 1945 to 1948, he has lived in England for most of his life.
  • At present Hudson resides in North London.
  • He joined University College London in 1970 and spent the whole of his working life there as Lecturer, Reader then Professor of Linguistics.
  • Although retired in 2004, at present he holds the position of an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London.
  • He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
  • Hudson did his doctoral thesis on the grammar of Beja, a Semitic language spoken in north-eastern Africa.
  • His 1980 publication, Sociolinguistics is considered as a classic book in the field of Sociolinguistics.
  • Professor Hudson has done wide-ranging work in the area of syntax.
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