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 under review at Language Science Press. His current book project is Words that won't hold still: How linguistic categories work.

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