• Please see Thank you, Professor Lawler and Rest in Peace! regarding John’s passing on 2023-11-25 at 81 years of age. His last extant profile follows.

I'm a retired English grammarian. I enjoy answering questions.

1. My Website at the University of Michigan
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler
2. Complete Publications and Lectures
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/LawlerPublications.html
3. My alt.usage.english (English Grammar) pages
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue
4. Details and handouts from some recent talks
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/NorWesCon.html
5. A term paper about K-12 Language Science
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/LanguageScience.pdf
6. Two old coursepacks (each ~100 pp)
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/210CourspackPart1.pdf
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/210CourspackPart2.pdf
   from my Intro Ling class
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/210.html)
7. Scanned teaching materials
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/wow/scans/
   from my Etymology class
   http://www.umich.edu/~jlawler/wow)