Brett Reynolds

Linguist · Humber Polytechnic · University of Toronto

Brett Reynolds is a linguist at Humber Polytechnic and an adjunct professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto. His work centres on English grammar and grammatical categories, with interests in syntactic annotation, constructionist/usage-based analysis, the philosophy of linguistics, and what grammaticality judgements can – and can't – tell us. He co-authored the second edition of A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (2021) and co-edited a new edition of Negation in English and Other Languages (2025). Language Landscapes (a TESL textbook) is forthcoming from Language Science Press. His current monograph is Words That Won't Hold Still: How Linguistic Categories Work, a completed manuscript under consideration at Cambridge University Press.

Research focus: English grammar, grammatical categories, syntactic annotation, usage-based/constructionist analysis, philosophy of linguistics, grammaticality judgments.