Gramley Stephan, Pätzold Kurt-Michael. A Survey of Modern English

2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2003. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0415300355.Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this authoritative guide to modern English is a comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English. In one volume the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations.
Covering new developments such as the impact of email on language and corpus-based grammars, this accessible text has been extensively rewritten and brings the survey of modern English right up to date.