Geoffrey Leech

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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A __ comprehensive grammar of the English language (1988) (7810)
Principles of pragmatics (1983) (3089)
Meaning and the English Verb (1971) (687)
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus (2001) (651)
A linguistic guide to English poetry (1969) (554)
A Communicative Grammar of English (1975) (524)
Semantics: The Study of Meaning (1974) (351)
The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) (314)
English in advertising : a linguistic study of advertising in Great Britain (1966) (309)
Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora (1997) (305)
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English (2002) (302)
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study (2009) (292)
Style in fiction (1981) (289)
Manual of information to accompany the Lancaster-Oslo : Bergen Corpus of British English, for use with digital computers (1978) (281)
Politeness: Is there an East-West divide? (2007) (279)
Towards a semantic description of English (1969) (264)
English discourse particles : Evidence from a corpus (2012) (241)
100 Million Words of English:The British National Corpus (BNC) (1992) (229)
Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose (1982) (217)
CLAWS4: The Tagging of the British National Corpus (1994) (214)
Corpora and theories of linguistic performance (1992) (212)
Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose / Geoffrey Neil Leech (1981) (207)
Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus (1997) (207)
Grammars of spoken English: new outcomes of corpus-oriented research. (2000) (201)
Modality on the move: the English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992. (2003) (176)
The tagged LOB Corpus : user's manual (1986) (165)
New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness (2007) (159)
Teaching and Language Corpora: a Convergence (2014) (141)
Introducing corpus annotation (1997) (139)
The computational analysis of English : a corpus-based approach (1989) (136)
An automated approach to the phrasicon of EFL learners (1998) (129)
Explorations in semantics and pragmatics (1980) (126)
Statistically-driven computer grammars of English : the IBM/LANCASTER approach (1993) (123)
The state of the art in corpus linguistics (2014) (119)
EAGLES recommendations for the morphosyntactic annotation of corpora (1996) (112)
Corpus Annotation Schemes (1993) (103)
The distribution and function of vocatives in American and British English conversation. (1999) (100)
Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding (2008) (99)
A GRAMMAR OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH1 (2006) (94)
English Grammar for Today (1982) (89)
A Glossary of English Grammar (2006) (88)
The Automatic Grammatical Tagging of the LOB Corpus (1983) (87)
Grammatical word class variation within the British National Corpus sampler (2002) (86)
Adding linguistic annotation. (2005) (86)
An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage (1989) (78)
A student grammar of spoken and written English. (2002) (76)
English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction (1982) (72)
Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English (2006) (70)
100 million words of English (1993) (69)
Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies: a comparison of the tagged LOB and F-LOB corpora. (2002) (65)
Running a grammar factory: The production of syntactically analysed corpora or “treebanks” (1991) (64)
Current Changes in English Syntax (2020) (62)
Studies in English linguistics for Randolph Quirk (1980) (62)
The modals ARE declining: Reply to Neil Millar’s “Modal verbs in TIME: Frequency changes 1923–2006”, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:2 (2009), 191–220 (2011) (56)
Spoken English on Computer: Transcription, Mark-Up and Application (1995) (55)
Recent grammatical change in English: data, description, theory. (2004) (54)
Standards for Tagsets. (1999) (51)
Generic speech act annotation for task-oriented dialogues. (2003) (49)
Recontextualization and the transformation of meanings: A critical discourse analysis of decision making in EU-meetings about employment policies. (2000) (48)
The use of computer corpora in the textual demonstrability of gradience in linguistic categories. (1994) (47)
Spoken English (1995) (47)
Extending the possibilities of corpus-based research on English in the twentieth century: a prequel to LOB and FLOB. (2005) (40)
Using corpora for language research : studies in the honour of Geoffrey Leech (1996) (38)
Beyond Skeleton Parsing: Producing a Comprehensive Large-Scale General-English Treebank With Full Grammatical Analysis (1996) (36)
English - One Tongue, Many Voices (2006) (34)
Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written English evolved in the period 1931-1991 (2009) (34)
The comparison of adjectives in recent British English. (1997) (33)
Grammar and composition (1982) (33)
Language, meaning and context: pragmatics (2002) (30)
Frequency, corpora and language learning (2011) (30)
Towards an anatomy of politeness in communication. (2003) (28)
The verb phrase in English: Investigating recent language change with corpora (2013) (27)
“Small is beautiful”: On the value of standard reference corpora for observing recent grammatical change (2012) (26)
An A-Z of English Grammar & Usage (2001) (25)
Do women and men really live in different cultures ? Evidence from the BNC (2009) (25)
The role of frequency in ELT: New corpus evidence brings a re-appraisal. (2001) (24)
SOME ASSUMPTIONS IN THE METATHEORY OF LINGUISTICS (1968) (23)
Adequacy, user-friendliness, and practicality in transcribing (2014) (23)
Grammar of Spoken and Written English (2021) (22)
Moving towards perfection: the learners’ (electronic) dictionary of the future. (1999) (22)
Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English (2014) (22)
Current change in English syntax. (2006) (21)
Politeness: West and East (2014) (20)
Studies in language and linguistics (1985) (20)
Pragmatics and conversational rhetoric (1981) (19)
Pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and “the celebrated letter” (1983) (18)
Change in Contemporary English: List of tables (2009) (18)
The Verb Phrase in English: Verb structures in twentieth-century British English (2013) (17)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USE OF COMPUTER CORPORA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESEARCH (1983) (17)
Pragmatics and dialogue. (2005) (17)
4. Language and tact (1980) (17)
Further levels of annotation (1997) (15)
A survey of English machine-readable corpora (1991) (15)
The Meanings of the Modals in British and American English. (1980) (14)
Computers in English language teaching and research : selected papers from the 1984 Lancaster symposium 'Computers in English language education and research' (1986) (14)
Manual of Information for the Lancaster Parsed Corpus (1999) (13)
The Use of Tagging (1999) (13)
Style in fiction revisited : the beginning of Great Expectations. (2007) (13)
Principles and applications of Corpus Linguistics (2011) (11)
English Grammar in Conversation (1998) (11)
Principios de pragmática (1997) (9)
Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, and Randi Reppen. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (1999) (9)
A new Gray's Anatomy of English grammar (2004) (9)
Disjunctive grammar in British television advertising (1963) (8)
American and British English (2006) (8)
Representation and annotation of dialogue. (2000) (7)
On the theory and practice of semantic testing (1970) (7)
Subordination and coordination (1982) (6)
Developing Linguistic Corpora (2000) (6)
Analysing literature through language : two Shakespearean speeches. (2010) (6)
Longman Communication 3000 and the Longman Defining Vocabulary. (2007) (6)
Discourse Analysis@@@Principles of Pragmatics@@@Pragmatics (1985) (6)
A large-scale investigation of verb-attached prepositional phrases (2011) (6)
Computers in English language research (1984) (5)
Introducing English grammar (1992) (5)
English style on the move: variation and change in stylistic norms in the twentieth century (2012) (5)
English Corpus Linguistics: Looking back, Moving forward (2012) (5)
Virginia Woolf meets Wmatrix (2013) (5)
NATURAL LANGUAGE AS METALANGUAGE: AN APPROACH TO SOME PROBLEMS IN THE SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH* (1977) (4)
Politeness : Is there an East-West Divide ? 1 (2008) (4)
The Development of ICAME and the Brown Family of Corpora (2013) (3)
A set of postulates (2016) (3)
The coming of ICAME. (2009) (3)
Stylistics and functionalism (2014) (3)
Outstanding Stylistics Study@@@Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose (1984) (3)
PATTERNS OF SOUND (2014) (3)
A communicative grammar of English / Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik (1983) (3)
Style in Fiction: New Directions for Research (2007) (2)
A comprehensive grammar of the English language. By RANDOLPH QUIRK, SID- (2016) (2)
Towards an Anatomy of Politeness in Communication (Special Issue on Neo-Gricean Pragmatics) (2003) (2)
Guidelines and standards for tagging. (1999) (2)
Change in Contemporary English: Preface (2009) (2)
English as a global language, second edition: David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, xvi + 212 pp., £10.95, paperback (2004) (2)
An anatomy of politeness in communication. (2003) (2)
Requests and Other Directives (2014) (1)
The First 500 Years (2006) (1)
A survey of the Interpersonal Rhetoric (2016) (1)
Being Precise about Lexical Vagueness. York Papers in Linguistics., No. 6. (1976) (1)
English corpus linguistics : looking back, moving forward : papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30), Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009 (2012) (1)
Change in Contemporary English: Take or have a look at a corpus? Expanded predicates in British and American English (2009) (1)
Communicative Grammar of English Communicative Grammar of English (1977) (1)
English — the Working Tongue of the Global Village (2006) (1)
AMBIGUITY AND INDETERMINACY (2014) (1)
The Expression of Future time (2014) (1)
English Varieties in the British Isles (2006) (1)
Language, culture and politeness. (2002) (1)
Natural Language Processing methodology for tracking diachronic changes in the 20th century English language (2013) (1)
English into the Future (2006) (1)
Change in Contemporary English: The subjunctive mood (2009) (1)
Linguistic Change in Progress: Back to the Inner Circle (2006) (1)
The odds in favour of the genitive:a study of gradience in English (1997) (1)
Corpus linguistics and the British national corpus. (2000) (1)
Introduction:English corpus linguistics - Looking back, moving forward (2012) (1)
Change in Contemporary English: The passive voice (2009) (0)
1.1 Grammar and rhetoric (1980) (0)
The Verb Phrase in English: Preface (2013) (0)
Principles of pragmatics / Geoffrey Leech (1983) (0)
Ruth M. Kempson, Semantic theory . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xii+216. (1980) (0)
JLio (1973) 281-359 Printed in Great Britain REVIEWS (2008) (0)
2.8 Conclusion (1980) (0)
Pragmatics, Indirectness, and Neg-politeness (2014) (0)
Spoken and \Vritten English List 2.1 Alphabetical frequency list: speech v. writing (lemmatized) (2014) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: The modal auxiliaries (2009) (0)
1066 and All That (2006) (0)
Geoffrey Leech : in conversation with Neil Gilroy-Scott (1980) (0)
Grammar : phrases (and clauses). (2009) (0)
Formalism and functionalism (2016) (0)
Speech-act verbs in English (2016) (0)
Trade name creation: processes and patterns: Jean Praninskas, Janua Linguarum, Series Practica 58. Mouton, The Hague and Paris 1968. 115 pp. ƒ 22.— (1970) (0)
4.12 The tact maxim (1980) (0)
GEOFFREY LEECH'S SPEECH AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY (2012) (0)
1.3 Textual and interpersonal rhetoric (1980) (0)
Key category analysis of a spoken corpus for EAP (2004) (0)
Retrospect and Prospect (2016) (0)
Simple Present and Past Tenses (2014) (0)
Discourse analysis: speech and writing (1982) (0)
4.2 “Direct and indirect illocutions” versus “sense and force” (1980) (0)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (2014) (0)
Modern English in the Making (2006) (0)
4.11 Negative politeness (1980) (0)
2.4 The problem of direct and indirect speech (1980) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: The composition of the Brown Corpus (2009) (0)
Rank Frequency Lists of Words \vithin Word Classes (Parts of Speech) List 5.1 Frequency list of common nouns in the whole corpus (by lemma) (2014) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: The noun phrase (2009) (0)
Teaching the Text in Class (1984) (0)
Implicit objects as a case in point (2014) (0)
4.0 Preface (1980) (0)
Exploring grammatical change across the twentieth century: A backward step permits further advance (2006) (0)
Linguistic and other determinants of change (2009) (0)
4.15 Conclusion (1980) (0)
THE IRRATIONAL IN POETRY (2014) (0)
The Automatic Content Analysis of Spoken Discourse. Final Report on SERC-DTI Project Nr. GR-F/36385 IED4-1-1143. (1992) (0)
1.0 Preface (1980) (0)
4.10 The pragmatic force of a sentence (1980) (0)
Acommunicative grammer of English (2016) (0)
Analysis of literary discourse (1982) (0)
Grammar,Pragmatics,and Politeness (1985) (0)
3.5 CONCLUSION (2019) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: The so-called semi-modals (2009) (0)
Growth and Decline: How Grammar has Been Changing in Recent English (2014) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: Introduction: ‘grammar blindness’ in the recent history of English? (2009) (0)
2.5 The problem of semantic acceptability in reporting sentences (1980) (0)
A method of analysis and some examples (2013) (0)
The Verb Phrase in English: Notes (2013) (0)
2. Natural language as metalanguage (1980) (0)
4.3 Searle's approach compared with the present one (1980) (0)
Conference Notice (1993) (0)
4.5 Sadock's ‘extended performative hypothesis’ (1980) (0)
The unique heritage of place-names in North West England (2007) (0)
PALC2001: Practical Applications in Language Corpora: Łódź Studies in Language 7. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszchyk (Ed.), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, 556 pp., £45.00, paperback (2006) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: Comparative corpus linguistics: the methodological basis of this book (2009) (0)
1.2 Functionalism and formalism (1980) (0)
Pala2007 Style and Communication (0)
Politeness and the History of English (2014) (0)
Discourse analysis: tenor and domain (1982) (0)
Interlanguage Pragmatics and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures (2014) (0)
4.14 Pragmatic space (1980) (0)
TITLE Being Precise about Lexical Vagueness (2007) (0)
Getting Started with Grammar (2006) (0)
Working with Literary Discourse (2006) (0)
2.0 Preface (1980) (0)
Methods of Data Collection (2014) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: The C8 tagset used for part-of-speech tagging of the four corpora (2009) (0)
Three British Grammars (1974) (0)
3.3 A sketch of the pragmatic analysis (1980) (0)
What kind of English should we teach? – a corpus linguistics perspective. (2000) (0)
Feature Article Corpus Linguistics and the British National Corpus (2000) (0)
4.13 The hinting strategy (1980) (0)
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan, Longman grammar of spoken and written English. London: Longman, 1999. Hardback 69. Pp. xii + 1,204. ISBN 0 582 23725 4 (2002) (0)
The Primary Modal Auxiliaries (2014) (0)
The Standard Language Today (2006) (0)
Grammar : clauses (and sentences). (2009) (0)
FOREGROUNDING AND INTERPRETATION (2014) (0)
Basic and derived structures (1982) (0)
Two 1Vlain Varieties of Spoken English Compared List 3.1 Alphabetical frequency list: conversational v. task-oriented speech (lemmatized) (2014) (0)
4.4 Gordon and Lakoff's conversational postulates (1980) (0)
4.7 Explanation of ‘indirectness’ by conversational principles (1980) (0)
3.2 Indirect speech and modes of mention (1980) (0)
Other Politeness-sensitive Speech Events (2014) (0)
4.6 Relation between sense and force (1980) (0)
What grammar is and is not (1982) (0)
Changing English across the twentieth century: enhancements to an existing family of corpora. (2005) (0)
2.6 The problem of referential opacity (1980) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: Additional statistical tables and charts (2009) (0)
Communicative Grammar: an example (2016) (0)
1. Grammar and rhetoric within a functional view of language (1980) (0)
Telling the truth about text? (1990) (0)
Sentences and their parts (1982) (0)
David Crystal : The Bigger Quirk ' If you W " antto knoW " hoW " a grallllllatical construction W " orks , you use . a grallllllary ' (2006) (0)
The Tact Maxim (2016) (0)
2.7 The problem of presuppositions (1980) (0)
Politeness and Its “Opposites” (2014) (0)
3.1 The performative hypothesis and the pragmatic analysis (1980) (0)
Bas Aarts. 2007. Syntactic gradience: The nature of grammatical indeterminacy (2009) (0)
Working with Discourse: Speech and Writing (2006) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: References (2009) (0)
Perspectives and Critical Models (1986) (0)
The generation of syntactic structures from a semantic base: W.J. Hutchins, North-Holland Linguistic Series 2. North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1971, viii, 197 pp. Dfl. 36.00 (1976) (0)
The interpersonal role of the Cooperative Principle (2016) (0)
Two 1vlain Varieties of\Vritten English Compared List 4.1 Alphabetical frequency list: imaginative v. informative \vriting (lemmatized) (2014) (0)
3. Metalanguage, pragmatics, and performatives (1980) (0)
INTONATION AND METRICAL THEORYl (2006) (0)
In Memory of Geoffrey Leech (2014) (0)
Grammar and problems of usage (1982) (0)
Grammar : words (and phrases). (2009) (0)
Working with Discourse: Tenor and Domain (2006) (0)
English, Pidgins and Creoles (2016) (0)
Pragmática : conceptos claves (2000) (0)
The expression of obligation and necessity in British English across the twentieth century: developments in matching corpora (2006) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: The progressive (2009) (0)
2.1 Introduction (1980) (0)
2.2 Metalanguage (1980) (0)
2.3 The semantic representation of metareference (1980) (0)
The grammar of spoken English. (2001) (0)
3.4 Comparison of the performative hypothesis and the pragmatic analysis (1980) (0)
Change in Contemporary English: Non-finite clauses (2009) (0)
English Goes to the New World (2006) (0)
Grammar on the move: recent changes in English grammatical usage. (2005) (0)
The Verb Phrase in English: Introduction (2013) (0)
Meaning and the english verb / Geoffrey N. Leech (1971) (0)
4.1 Introduction (1980) (0)
From Caribbean English to Creole (2006) (0)
The Verb Phrase in English: References (2013) (0)
Edward Herman Bendiz, Componential Analysis of General Vocabulary: The Semantic Structure of a Set of Verbs in English, Hindi, and Japanese . Bloomington: Indiana University; The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1966. Pp. ix + 190. (1968) (0)
An A-Z of English grammar & usage / Geoffrey Leech, BenitaCruickshank, Roz Ivanic. (2001) (0)
4.9 The logical form (sense) of a sentence (1980) (0)

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