Geoffrey Leech

Linguist

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Gender	Male
Death	11 years ago
Date of birth	January 16,1936
Zodiac sign	Capricorn
Born	Gloucester
	United Kingdom
Date of died	August 19,2014
Died	Lancaster
	United Kingdom
Job	Linguist
Children	Thomas Leech
Citations	112,100
Education	University College London
Interests	Corpus Linguistics
	Grammar
	Pragmatics
	Stylistics
	Semantics
Publications	scholar.google.com
Date of Reg.	2019-09-24 04:02:13
Date of Upd.	2023-07-03 07:33:32
ID	1300687

A communicative grammar of English
A linguistic guide to English poetry
Meaning and the English Verb
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus
The Pragmatics of Politeness
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study
English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction
An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage
A Glossary of English Grammar
Studies in English Linguistics for Randolph Quirk
English in Advertising: A Linguistic Study of Advertising in Great Britain
Corpus Linguistics By The Lune
Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding
Towards a semantic description of English
Explorations in semantics and pragmatics
Statistically- driven Computer Grammars of English: The IBM/Lancaster Approach
A Grammar of Contemporary English
Introducing English Grammar
Grammar Pack Euro
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook Arab Ouedition
Grammer Pack 2
Semantics
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Engli
English Grammar: A Glossary Of Terms
Grammar Pack
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Principles of pragmatics
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
Style in fiction

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Geoffrey Leech Life story

Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics.