Geoffrey N Leech

Biographic Data

ID747196
NAMEGeoffrey N Leech
GIVEN NAMESGeoffrey N
FAMILY NAMELeech
SIGNATURELEECH G N
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS785
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al.BOOKGrammar of Spoken and Written…2021

    The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of language use for each grammatical feature, based on empirical analyses of grammatical patterns in a 40-million-word corpus of spoken a…

  • The Modals Are Declining

    Geoffrey Leech, Geoffrey N LeechARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…2011Cited by: 8

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  • Change in Contemporary English

    Open AccessGeoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt et al.BOOKChange in Contemporary English2009

    Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receivin…

  • Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies

    C Mair, Marianne Hundt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…2002References: 1

    The paper presents a comparison of tag frequencies in two matching one-million word reference corpora of British standard English, the 1961 LOB-corpus and its 1991 “clone” produced at Freiburg. Both corpora were tagged using a version of the CLAWS part-of-speech-tagger developed at Lancaster, and part of the material was post-edited manually in Freiburg to assess the accuracy of the automatic procedure. The comparison of tag frequencies is an ess…

  • Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary

    Paul Rayson, Geoffrey Leech et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…1997Cited by: 23

    In this article, we undertake selective quantitative analyses of the demographi-cally-sampled spoken English component of the British National Corpus (for brevity, referred to here as the ''Conversational Corpus"). This is a subcorpus of c. 4.5 million words, in which speakers and respondents (see I below) are identified by such factors as gender, age, social group, and geographical region. Using a corpus analysis tool developed at Lancaster, we …

  • A Comprehensive grammar of the English language

    Geoffrey N Leech, Jan Svartvik et al.BOOKA Comprehensive grammar of the…1985Cited by: 747

  • Discourse Analysis

    George L Dillon, Linda Coleman et al.ARTICLELanguage1985Cited by: 1

  • Outstanding Stylistics Study

    Richard D Cureton, Geoffrey Leech et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1984

  • Style in Fiction

    Michael Toolan, Geoffrey Leech et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1983

    Foreword Introduction Part I: Approaches and methods 1. Style and Choice 2. Style, Text and Frequency 3. A Method of Analysis and some Examples 4. Levels of Style Part II: Aspects of style 5. Language and the Fictional World 6. Mind Style 7. The Rhetoric of Text 8. Discourse and Discourse Situation 9. Conversation in the Novel 10. Speech and Thought Presentation Passages and topics for further study Further reading Bibliography Index of works dis…

  • Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics

    Alice Davison, Geoffrey N LeechARTICLELanguage1982

  • Style in Fiction

    Geoffrey Leech, Geoffrey N Leech et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1982Cited by: 4

  • The generation of syntactic structures from a semantic base

    Open AccessGeoffrey Leech, Geoffrey N LeechARTICLELingua1976References: 3

  • Towards a Semantic Description of English

    J M E Moravcsik, Geoffrey N LeechARTICLELanguage1972

  • Some Assumptions in the Metatheory of Linguistics

    Open AccessGeoffrey Leech, Geoffrey N LeechARTICLELinguistics1968Cited by: 2