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Professor Geoffrey Leech

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Published

    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

  2. Published

    Representation and annotation of dialogue.

    Grice, M., Leech, G., Weisser, M. & Wilson, A., 2000, Handbook of multimodal and spoken dialogue systems: resources, terminology and product evaluation. Gibbon, D., Mertins, I. & Moore, R. K. (eds.). SECS 5 ed. Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 1-101 101 p. (The Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science).

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

  3. Published

    Same grammar or different grammar? Contrasting approaches to the grammar of spoken discourse.

    Leech, G., 2000, Discourse in social life. Sarangi, S. & Coulthard, M. (eds.). London: Longman, p. 48-65 18 p.

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

  4. Published

    Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies: a comparison of the tagged LOB and F-LOB corpora.

    Mair, C., Hundt, M., Leech, G. & Smith, N., 2003, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 7, 2, p. 245-264 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus

    Rayson, P., Leech, G. & Hodges, M., 1997, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2, 1, p. 133-152 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    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

  7. Published

    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

  8. Published

    Style in fiction revisited : the beginning of Great Expectations.

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

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The automatic content analysis of spoken discourse.

    Garside, R., Rayson, P., Leech, G., Wilson, A. & Thomas, J. A., 01/1992

    Research output: Other contribution

  10. Published
  11. Published

    The coming of ICAME.

    Leech, G. & Johansson, S., 2009, In: ICAME Journal. 33, p. 5-20 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    The comparison of adjectives in recent British English.

    Culpeper, J. & Leech, G. N., 1997, To Explain the Present: Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen. Nevalainen, T. & Kahlas-Tarkka, L. (eds.). 52 ed. Helsinki: Memoires de la Societe Neophilologique de Helsinki, p. 353-373 21 p. (Mémoires de la Société néophilologique de Helsinki).

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

  13. Published

    The distribution and function of vocatives in American and British English conversation.

    Leech, G., 1999, Out of corpora: studies in honour of Stig Johansson. Hasselgård, H. & Oksefjell, S. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 107-118 12 p.

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

  14. Published

    The expression of obligation and necessity in British English across the twentieth century: developments in matching corpora

    Smith, N., Leech, G. & Rayson, P., 08/2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  15. Published

    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.

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

  16. Published

    The odds in favour of the genitive: a study of gradience in English

    Leech, G., Francis, B. & Xu, X., 1997, The Locus of meaning: papers in honour of Yoshihiko Ikeganu. Yamanaka, K. & Ohori, T. (eds.). Tokyo: Kuroshi

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  17. Published

    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

  18. Published

    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

  19. Published

    The use of computer corpora in the textual demonstrability of gradience in linguistic categories.

    Leech, G., Francis, B. & Xu, X., 1994, Continuity in Linguistic Semantics. Fuchs, C. & Victorri, B. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 57-76 20 p. (Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa; vol. 19).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  20. Published

    The use of tagging.

    Leech, G. & Smith, N., 1999, Syntactic wordclass tagging. van Halteren, H. (ed.). 9 ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 23-36 14 p. (Text, speech, and language technology).

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

  21. Published

    Towards 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

  22. Published

    What kind of English should we teach? – a corpus linguistics perspective.

    Leech, G., 2000, In: Selected Research Papers in Applied Linguistics. 2, p. 3-15 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Word frequencies in written and spoken English: based on the British National Corpus.

    Leech, G., Rayson, P. & Wilson, A., 2001, London: Longman. 304 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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