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Tag Archives: LOB corpus
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
Posted in biography
Tagged corpus linguistics, descriptive grammar, Geoffrey Leech, LOB corpus
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Out with whom, in with the split infinitive
One of our blog authors recently tackled the “whom issue”, and it made me wonder if this word is really dying out. Our readers will also remember several posts featuring the split infinitive, the pedants’ pet peeve. I have decided … Continue reading
Posted in usage features
Tagged Brown corpus, corpus, langauge change, LOB corpus, pet peeve, split infinitive, whom
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