Geoffrey Leech
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Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Leech
Geoffrey Leech was Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University from 1974 to 2002.
Leech's main academic interests are:
- English grammar
- Semantics
- Stylistics
- Pragmatics
- Corpus linguistics
- Corpus-based natural language processing by computer
[edit] Selected Publications
- A Glossary of English Grammar (2006)
- Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English (with D. Biber and S. Conrad) (2002)
- Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus (with P. Rayson and A. Wilson) (2001)
- An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage (with B. Cruickshank and R. Ivanic) (2001)
- Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (with D. Biber, S. Johansson , S. Conrad and E. Finegan ) (1999)
- Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora (ed. with R. Garside and T. McEnery) (1997)
- Spoken English on Computer: Transcription, Mark-up and Application (ed. with G. Myers and J. Thomas) (1995)
- A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum and J. Svartvik) (1985)
- Principles of Pragmatics (1983)
- Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose (with M. Short) (1981; 2 nd edn. in preparation)
- A Communicative Grammar of English (with J. Svartvik) (1975, 2nd edn. 1994, 3rd edn. 2002)
- Meaning and the English Verb (1971, 2nd edn. 1987; 3 rd edn. 2004)
- A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969)
- English in Advertising: A Linguistic Study of Advertising in Great Britain (1966)
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