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

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)
* "Towards a Semantic Description of English" (1969)
* "A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry" (1969)
* "English in Advertising: A Linguistic Study of Advertising in Great Britain" (1966)

External links

* http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/geoff/geoff.htm