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Professor Geoffrey Leech

Formerly at Lancaster University

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    Geoffrey Leech.

    Leech, G., 2002, Linguistics in Britain: personal histories. Brown, K. & Law, V. (eds.). 36 ed. Oxford: Blackwell, p. 155-169 15 p. (Publications of the Philological Society).

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    A communicative grammar of English.

    Leech, G. & Svartvik, J., 2002, London: Longman. 440 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    Modality on the move: the English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992.

    Leech, G., 2003, Modality in contemporary English. Facchinetti, R., Krug, M. & Palmer, F. (eds.). 44 ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 223-240 18 p. (Topics in English linguistics).

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    Generic speech act annotation for task-oriented dialogues.

    Leech, G. & Weisser, M., 2003, Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2003 conference. Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. & McEnery, A. M. (eds.). Lancaster: Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers, Lancaster University, p. 441-446 6 p.

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    Pragmatics and dialogue.

    Leech, G., 2003, The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Mitkov, R. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 136-156 21 p.

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    Towards an anatomy of politeness in communication.

    Leech, G., 2003, In: International Journal of Pragmatics. 14, p. 101-123 23 p.

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    Meaning and the English verb.

    Leech, G., 2004, Harlow: Pearson Longman. 141 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    A new Gray’s anatomy of English grammar : review article on R. Huddleston and G. Pullum, ‘The Cambridge grammar of the English language’, 2002.

    Leech, G., 05/2004, In: English Language and Linguistics. 8, 1, p. 121-147 27 p.

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    Recent grammatical change in English: data, description, theory.

    Leech, G., 2004, Advances in corpus linguistics: papers from the 23rd international conference on English language research on computerised corpora (ICAME 23). Aijmer, K. & Altenberg, B. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 61-81 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    Adding linguistic annotation.

    Leech, G., 2005, Developing linguistic corpora : a guide to good practice. Wynne, M. (ed.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 17-29 13 p.

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    Grammar on the move: recent changes in English grammatical usage.

    Leech, G., 2005, Cultural matrix reloaded: Romanian society for English and American studies: 7th international conference. Croitoru, E., Praisler, M. & Tuchel, D. (eds.). Bucharest: Editura Didactica si Pedagogica R.A., p. 11-22 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    English grammar for today: a new introduction.

    Leech, G., Deuchar, M. & Hoogenraad, R., 2006, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 238 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    A Glossary of English Grammar.

    Leech, G., 2006, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 133 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose.

    Leech, G. & Short, M., 2007, Harlow: Pearson Longman. 404 p. (English language series)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    The grammar of spoken English.

    Leech, G., 2001, Studies in Cross-cultural Communication – The Message Sent and the Message Received. Hawkes, P. (ed.). Osaka: Osaka International University for Women, p. 1-18 18 p.

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    The role of frequency in ELT: New corpus evidence brings a re-appraisal.

    Leech, G., 2001, ELT in China 2001: Papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium on ELT in China. Hu, W. (ed.). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, p. 1-23 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    An anatomy of politeness in communication.

    Leech, G., 2003, In: International Journal of Pragmatics. 14, p. 101-123 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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    Politeness: is there an East-West divide?

    Leech, G., 2005, In: Journal of Foreign Languages. 6, p. 3-31 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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    Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English.

    Leech, G. & Smith, N., 2006, The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics. Renouf, A. & Kehoe, A. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 186-204 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness.

    Leech, G., 2007, Corpus Linguistics and the Web. Hundt, M., Nesselhauf, N. & Biewer, C. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 133-149 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    Style in fiction revisited : the beginning of Great Expectations.

    Leech, G., 2007, In: Style. 41, 2, p. 117-132 16 p.

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    Politeness : is there an East-West divide?

    Leech, G., 07/2007, In: Journal of Politeness Research. 3, 2, p. 167-206 40 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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    The unique heritage of place-names in North West England

    Leech, G., 2007, Text, Language and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of Keiko Ikegami. Nakao, Y. (ed.). Tokyo: Eihoosha, p. 42-61 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    Standards for Tagsets.

    Leech, G. & Wilson, A., 1999, Syntactic Wordclass Tagging. van Halteren, H. (ed.). 9 ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 55-80 26 p. (Text, speech, and language technology).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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    Language in literature : style and foregrounding.

    Leech, G., 2008, Harlow: Pearson Longman. 222 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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