English Grammar: A Descriptive Linguistic Approach

Gülşat Aygen, is a professor of linguistics with more than thirty years of experience in teaching theoretical linguistics and English both to native speakers and to ESL students at prestigious multinational companies and higher education institutions in the US and abroad. She received her PhD in linguistics at Harvard University, where she taught linguistics and English and earned Excellence in Teaching Awards. She is the first of the two non-native speakers of English who have ever taught English at Harvard. In 2004, she joined the faculty at the English Department at Northern Illinois University, where she is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor. Throughout her career, she has been teaching Contemporary Theories of Linguistics, English Linguistics, English Grammar, Dialects of English, Language and Gender as well as Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology. She has also been serving as a translator, editor of translated books, linguistic consultant, and an expert-witness in linguistics for not-for-profit organizations and for-profit companies. 

She has been publishing extensively on theoretical aspects of language, as well as descriptive grammars of languages, and on textbook pedagogy.  Her primary expertise is in theoretical linguistics, but her interests expand to applied linguistics, English Linguistics, sociolinguistics, grammars of less-studied languages, brain & language, and translation studies. Her publications include dozens of journal articles and many chapters in books on syntax, morphology, applied linguistics, and neurolinguistics, and translations of books, in addition to several books she authored: Finiteness, Case and Clausal Architecture (2004), Kurmanjî Kurdish (2007), Zazaki/Kirmancki Kurdish (2010),  English Grammar: A Descriptive Linguistic Approach (2014, 2015, 2016).