Publications
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Books
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Huddleston, R., Pullum, G. K., & Reynolds, B. (2022). A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Jespersen, O. (2025). Negation in English and Other Languages. New edition co-edited with Peter Evans. Berlin: Language Science Press.
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Reynolds, B. (forthcoming). Language Landscapes: The ESL Teacher's Guide to How English Works. Language Science Press.
Catalog
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Reynolds, B. (completed manuscript). Words That Won't Hold Still: How Linguistic Categories Work. Under peer review at Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
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Reynolds, B. (forthcoming). An attentional-bias account of language emergence. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). The lexicon–syntax boundary in English numerals: Cardinals, ordinals, and fractionals. English Language and Linguistics, 1–19.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Going + comp projects PP, not AdvP: A reply to Silvennoinen (2025). English Language and Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Prepositions in (English) dictionaries. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 46(1).
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Reynolds, B. (2024). Why more and less are never adverbs. Journal of Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2024). Language without lessons: The promise of large language models. Contact.
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Reynolds, B. (2022). Still against teaching collocations. The Reading Matrix, 22(1), 144–149.
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Reynolds, B. (2021). Quantifying the differences between lexical categories: The case of pronouns and determinatives in English. Cadernos de Linguística.
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Reynolds, B. (2019). Against teaching collocations. ELT Journal, 73(2), 223–225.
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Reynolds, B. (2014). Determinatives again. TESL Canada Journal, 31(2), 89–91.
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Reynolds, B. (2013). Determiners, feline marsupials, and the category–function distinction: A critique of ELT grammars. TESL Canada Journal, 30(2), 1–17.
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Choi, J., Milburn, R., Marcoccia, P., Silva, P. J., Penag, S., & Reynolds, B. (2013). The intersection of mathematics and language in the post-secondary environment: Implications for English language learners. Collected Essays on Teaching and Learning, 6.
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Reynolds, B. (2011). The myth of FANBOYS: Coordination, commas, and college composition classes. TESL Canada Journal, 29(1), 104–112.
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Reynolds, B. (2003). Problems in automating Brown's EFL Readability Index. JALT Journal.
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Reynolds, B. (1999). Phonetic coding in language aptitude: Different roles for different languages. Temple University Japan Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 14.
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Reynolds, B. (1998). Phonemic awareness: Is it really language specific? Literacy Across Cultures, 2(2), 9–13.
Preprints & Under Review
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Adversarial Pragmatics for AI Safety Evaluation: A Benchmark for Instruction Conflict, Embedded Commands, and Policy Ambiguity. arXiv preprint.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Function-first without function-in-syntax: Projectibility, field-relative kinds, and the limits of Thomasson’s deflation.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). A metaphysician’s systemic-functional turn: Amie Thomasson’s Rethinking Metaphysics and the architecture of linguistic description.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Difference-in-differences for corpus linguistics: Causal inference, corpus composition, and linguistic change after shocks.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Bridge Principles without UG: Projectibility, Crosslinguistic Evidence, and Linguistic Ontology.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Expert Grammaticality Judges as Evaluators, Not Participants: Grammaticality Judgments, Rater Roles, and Research Ethics Review. Under review at Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Kinds as Projectibility Profiles: Support Grades and Demotion Rules.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Not every stable cluster is homeostatic: Stability, network order, maintenance, and control in projectible kinds. Under review at Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Truth-tracking profiles: What large language models participate in.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Effective without warrant: Causal-normative networks and the social life of status. Under review at Journal of Social Ontology.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). What do we mean by language? A pluralist map for the language sciences. Under review at Language Sciences.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). English determinatives as nouns. Under review at English Language and Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Grammaticality needs more than dependency locality. Under review at Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Letter).
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Reynolds, B. & Miller, J. T. M. (2026). Grammaticality as kind: Ontology, epistemology, and empirical pay-off. Under review at Mind & Language.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Varieties as conditioning structure: A homeostatic account of register, dialect, and discourse community.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). What English interjections let us predict: Stable causal-pragmatic clustering and path dependence. Under review at Journal of Pragmatics.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). What dogs know about trails: Metaphor, mechanisms, and the phylogeny of cross-domain extension.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Mean bounds, structural reductions, and exhaustive verification for tree independence polynomial unimodality.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Why clause structure is judged like tense and agreement: public-update operators and grammaticality. Preprint.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Why English doesn't extract left branches (yet).
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Reynolds, B. (2026). De-idealizing the asterisk: Grammaticality as conditioned stability.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). LLMs as boundary phenomena: A comment on Nefdt (2026).
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Reference as a cluster concept: A reply to Coelho Mollo and Millière. Under review at Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
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Pullum, G. & Reynolds, B. (2025). Misuse of linguistic evidence in a study of media bias. Under review at Journal of Language and Politics.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Personhood and pro-forms: A hierarchical analysis of gender in Modern English. Under review at Folia Linguistica.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Focus modification and interrogative heads. Under review at Glossa.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). "Exactly who" but not *"the person exactly who": Focus modifiers and the foregrounding constraint.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). English kinship terms: From taboo to syntax. Under review at Journal of English Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Naturalizing typological kinds: Comparanda, mechanisms, and measurement.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). The homeostatic maintenance of English countability: Bidirectional inference and the stability of grammatical clusters. Under review at Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Definiteness and deitality in English: A projectibility-first account. Under review at Journal of Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Language as a stack of homeostatic property-cluster kinds: From phonemes to constructions.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). Measuring stable diagnostic ambiguity: A quantitative workflow for small-n grammatical boundary phenomena. Under review at Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.
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Reynolds, B. (2025). A hyperreal model of sorites tolerance.
PhilPapers
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Reynolds, B. (2025). From checklists to clusters: A homeostatic account of AGI evaluation.
arXiv
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Reynolds, B. (2024). Characterizing grammaticality: A draft framework.
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Reynolds, B. (2024). Not every whose down in Who-ville likes appearing a lot: Pragmatic constraints on independent relative whose.
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Reynolds, B. (2021). Full matrix of English determinative and pronoun features.
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Reynolds, B. (2020). What echolocation does and doesn't mean for language.
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Conference Proceedings & Technical Reports
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Arora, A., Schneider, N., & Reynolds, B. (2023). Unified syntactic annotation of English in the CGEL framework. Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop.
ACL Anthology
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Arora, A., Schneider, N., & Reynolds, B. (2023). CGELBank annotation manual v1.2.
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Arora, A., Schneider, N., & Reynolds, B. (2022). CGELBank: CGEL as a framework for English syntax annotation.
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Lemmer, R., Brierley, M., Reynolds, B., & Waring, R. (2012). Introduction to the Extensive Reading Foundation Online Self-Placement Test. Extensive Reading World Congress Proceedings, 1, 23–25.
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Reynolds, B. (1999). Phonological awareness in EFL reading acquisition. In A. Barfield et al. (Eds.), On JALT98: Focus on the Classroom: Interpretations, 152–159. Tokyo: JALT.
Selected Talks
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Data-driven syntax: How English works around its left-branching constraint. Keynote, JWLLP 35, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, April 18.
Slides
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Kim, J.-B. & Reynolds, B. (2026). Transparent free relatives. WRAPP (Workshop on the Representation and Analysis of Prepositional Phrases), April 8–10, Germany.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). How to study boundary phenomena: English reciprocals and the limits of categorization. Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation, Sorbonne, Paris, April 10.
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Reynolds, B. (2026). Varieties as conditioning structure. Language Variation and Change study group, University of Toronto, March 27.
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Reynolds, B. (2011). Words as a measure of hope. TEDxHumberCollege: More Than Words, Toronto, June 1.
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Book Chapters & Other Academic Writing
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Reynolds, B., & Brown, J. (2019). Treating ESL students with respect: Critical praxis. In A. Jule (Ed.), The Compassionate Educator: Understanding Social Issues in Canadian Schools (pp. 153–173). Toronto: Canadian Scholars.
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Reynolds, B. (2012). ウィキの神話を打ち破る：ウィキが、あなたが求めているラィティングの解決法になりそうもない理由 [Busting the wiki myth]. In M. Jamall (Ed.), Sound & Vision, 69–98. Tokyo: Kazama Press.
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Reynolds, B. (2012). Oxford Modern English Grammar by Bas Aarts (Book review). Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching.
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Reynolds, B. (2010). Chunking: Another perspective. Visual Thesaurus.
Archive
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Reynolds, B. (2007). Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: Bringing Scientific Research to Practice (Review). TESL Canada Journal, 24(2), 137–138.
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Educational Materials
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Reynolds, B. et al. (2022). ODELLO (Online free and open materials for CLB 1–4). eCampus Ontario.
Website
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Graham-Marr, A., Moran, D., McNeese, S., & Reynolds, B. (2009). Communication Spotlight: Speaking Strategies and Listening Skills: Starter. Tokyo: Abax.
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Reynolds, B. (2008). Foundations Reading Library, Level 7: Activity Book. R. Waring & M. Jamall (Eds.). Boston: Heinle.
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Reynolds, B. (2008). Foundations Reading Library, Level 5: Lesson Planner. R. Waring & M. Jamall (Eds.). Boston: Heinle.
Popular Writing
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Reynolds, B. (2023–present). Multiple articles for Mental Floss.
Author page
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Reynolds, B. (2006–2014). English, Jack (blog, ~800 posts).
Blog
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