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Tag Archives: Geoffrey Leech
The future of English
At the turn of the calendar year, we are usually making (soon-to-be-broken) resolutions and speculating about the future. It comes as no surprise that linguists have been exchanging their views on the future of English in the previous weeks, John … Continue reading
Farewell to Geoffrey Leech
This month, Geoffrey Leech, the eminent Professor and the founder of the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, passed away. Due to his major contributions to the fields of corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics and semantics, as well … Continue reading
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Tagged corpus linguistics, descriptive grammar, Geoffrey Leech, LOB corpus
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