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:

[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)
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)

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