Errata

Language Landscapes: The ESL teacher's guide to how English works

Corrections to the published book (Language Science Press, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20612113). Page numbers are the book's printed page numbers.

The corrections are also marked in the PaperHive copy of the book. PaperHive numbers pages from the front cover, so printed page n of the main text is PaperHive page n + 22.

If you find something else, please write to me at brettrey@gmail.com.

Corrections

Page	Correction
136	§6.5.2, A top-down example. The last two trees show I helped you, but the text is building a tree for I had my breakfast. The corrected trees: Second-to-last step Last step Reported by Zulfiyya Ahmadova · PaperHive page 158
136	§6.5.2, last paragraph before the final tree: “with its Det:DP my” ⇒ “with its Det:NP my”. My is a pronoun, so it heads an NP (see §3.5, Noun phrases as determiners). PaperHive page 158

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Correction

136

§6.5.2, A top-down example. The last two trees show I helped you, but the text is building a tree for I had my breakfast. The corrected trees:

Tree for I had, step five: Clause branches to Subj:NP and Head:VP. The NP has Head:N-pro I; the VP has Head:V had on a branch sloping left. — Second-to-last step

Tree for I had my breakfast: Clause branches to Subj:NP (Head:N-pro I) and Head:VP. The VP has Head:V had and Obj:NP. The object NP has Det:NP, whose Head:N-pro is my, and Head:N breakfast. — Last step

Reported by Zulfiyya Ahmadova · PaperHive page 158

136

§6.5.2, last paragraph before the final tree: “with its Det:DP my” ⇒ “with its Det:NP my”. My is a pronoun, so it heads an NP (see §3.5, Noun phrases as determiners).

PaperHive page 158

Thanks

Thanks to Zulfiyya Ahmadova, who spotted the mismatched trees on p. 136 and pointed them out to me.