Professor Geoffrey Leech - Publications
Geoffrey Leech has 54 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
2007
Bullon, S. and Leech, Geoffrey (2007) Longman Communication 3000 and the Longman Defining Vocabulary. In: Longman Communication 3000. Pearson Longman, Harlow, pp. 1-7.
Leech, Geoffrey (2007) New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness. In: Corpus Linguistics and the Web. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 133-149.
Leech, Geoffrey (2007) Politeness : is there an East-West divide? Journal of Politeness Research, 3 (2). pp. 167-206. ISSN ISSN (printed): 1612-5681. ISSN (electronic): 1613-4877
Leech, Geoffrey and Short, Mick (2007) Style in fiction. Pearson Longman, Harlow. ISBN 9780582784093
Leech, Geoffrey and Short, M. H. (2007) Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose. English language series . Pearson Longman, Harlow. ISBN 9780582784093
Leech, Geoffrey (2007) Style in fiction revisited : the beginning of Great Expectations. Style, 41 (2). pp. 117-132.
Leech, Geoffrey (2007) The unique heritage of place-names in North West England. In: Text, Language and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of Keiko Ikegami. Eihoosha, Tokyo, pp. 42-61.
2006
Leech, Geoffrey (2006) A Glossary of English Grammar. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748624065
Mair, C. and Leech, Geoffrey (2006) Current change in English syntax. In: The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 318-342.
Svartvik, J. and Leech, Geoffrey (2006) English : One tongue many voices. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills. ISBN 9781403918291
Leech, Geoffrey and Deuchar, M. and Hoogenraad, R. (2006) English grammar for today: a new introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403916419
Smith, N. and Leech, G. and Rayson, P. (2006) Exploring grammatical change across the twentieth century: A backward step permits further advance. In: 27th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), 2006-05-24 - 2006-05-28, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Leech, Geoffrey and Smith, N. (2006) Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English. In: The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 186-204.
2005
Leech, Geoffrey (2005) Adding linguistic annotation. In: Developing linguistic corpora : a guide to good practice. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 17-29.
Smith, N. and Rayson, P. and Leech, G. and Wynne, M. (2005) Changing English across the twentieth century: enhancements to an existing family of corpora. In: Digital Resources for the Humanities conference (DRH 2005), 2005-09-01, Lancaster University.
Smith, N. and Rayson, P. and Leech, Geoffrey and Wynne, M. (2005) Changing English across the twentieth century: enhancements to an existing family of corpora. In: Proceedings of the Digital Research for the Humanities Conference (DRH 2005). Lancaster University, Lancaster.
Leech, Geoffrey and Smith, N. (2005) Extending the possibilities of corpus-based research on English in the twentieth century: a prequel to LOB and FLOB. ICAME Journal, 29. pp. 83-98.
Leech, Geoffrey (2005) Grammar on the move: recent changes in English grammatical usage. In: Cultural matrix reloaded: Romanian society for English and American studies: 7th international conference. Editura Didactica si Pedagogica R.A., Bucharest, pp. 11-22.
Leech, Geoffrey (2005) Politeness: is there an East-West divide? Wai Guo Yu:, 6. pp. 3-31.
2004
Leech, Geoffrey (2004) A new Gray’s anatomy of English grammar : review article on R. Huddleston and G. Pullum, ‘The Cambridge grammar of the English language’, 2002. English Language and Linguistics, 8 (1). pp. 121-147. ISSN (Print) 1360-6743 (Online) 1469-4379
Leech, Geoffrey (2004) Meaning and the English verb. Pearson Longman, Harlow.
Leech, Geoffrey (2004) Recent grammatical change in English: data, description, theory. In: Advances in corpus linguistics: papers from the 23rd international conference on English language research on computerised corpora (ICAME 23). Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 61-81.
2003
Leech, Geoffrey (2003) An anatomy of politeness in communication. International Journal of Pragmatics, 14. pp. 101-123.
Leech, Geoffrey and Weisser, M. (2003) Generic speech act annotation for task-oriented dialogues. In: Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2003 conference. Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers, Lancaster University, Lancaster, pp. 441-446.
Leech, Geoffrey (2003) Modality on the move: the English modal auxiliaries 1961-1992. In: Modality in contemporary English. Topics in English linguistics (44). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 223-240. ISBN 3110176866
Leech, Geoffrey (2003) Pragmatics and dialogue. In: The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 136-156. ISBN 0198238827
Mair, C. and Hundt, M. and Leech, Geoffrey and Smith, N. (2003) Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies: a comparison of the tagged LOB and F-LOB corpora. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 7 (2). pp. 245-264. ISSN ISSN: 1384-6655 E-ISSN: 1569-9811
Leech, Geoffrey (2003) Towards an anatomy of politeness in communication. International Journal of Pragmatics, 14. pp. 101-123.
2002
Leech, Geoffrey and Svartvik, J. (2002) A communicative grammar of English. Longman, London.
Biber, D. and Conrad, S. and Leech, Geoffrey (2002) A student grammar of spoken and written English. Longman, London.
Conrad, S. and Biber, D. and Leech, Geoffrey (2002) A student grammar of spoken and written English : workbook. Longman, London.
Leech, Geoffrey (2002) Geoffrey Leech. In: Linguistics in Britain: personal histories. Publications of the Philological Society (36). Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 155-169. ISBN 0631234764
Rayson, P. and Wilson, A. and Leech, G. (2002) Grammatical word class variation within the British National Corpus sampler. In: New frontiers of corpus research: Papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Sydney 2000. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 295-306. ISBN 90-420-1237-4
Rayson, P. and Wilson, Andrew and Leech, Geoffrey (2002) Grammatical word class variation within the British national corpus sampler. In: New frontiers of corpus research: papers from the 21st international conference on English language research on computerised corpora. Language and computers (36). Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 295-306. ISBN 9042012374
2001
Leech, Geoffrey and Cruickshank, B. and Ivanic, R. (2001) An A-Z of English grammar and usage. Longman, London. ISBN 0582405742
Leech, Geoffrey (2001) Corpora. In: The linguistics encyclopaedia. Routledge, London, pp. 84-93. ISBN 0415222095
Leech, Geoffrey (2001) Language, culture and politeness. In: Horizons of the humanities: thoughts and critical theories of the future. The Institute of Humanities Research, Pusan National University, Korea, pp. 107-129.
Leech, Geoffrey (2001) The grammar of spoken English. In: Studies in Cross-cultural Communication – The Message Sent and the Message Received. Osaka International University for Women, Osaka, pp. 1-18.
Leech, Geoffrey (2001) The role of frequency in ELT: New corpus evidence brings a re-appraisal. In: ELT in China 2001: Papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium on ELT in China. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, pp. 1-23.
Leech, G. and Rayson, P. and Wilson, A. (2001) Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus. Longman, London. ISBN 0582-32007-0
2000
Leech, Geoffrey (2000) Corpus linguistics and the British national corpus. English Corpus Studies, 7. pp. 1-20.
Leech, Geoffrey (2000) Grammars of spoken English: new outcomes of corpus-oriented research. Language Learning, 50 (4). pp. 675-724. ISSN 0023-8333
Grice, M. and Leech, Geoffrey and Weisser, M. and Wilson, A. (2000) Representation and annotation of dialogue. In: Handbook of multimodal and spoken dialogue systems: resources, terminology and product evaluation. The Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science (SECS 5). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Mass., pp. 1-101. ISBN 0792379047
Leech, Geoffrey (2000) Same grammar or different grammar? Contrasting approaches to the grammar of spoken discourse. In: Discourse in social life. Longman, London, pp. 48-65. ISBN 0582404681
Leech, Geoffrey (2000) What kind of English should we teach? – a corpus linguistics perspective. Selected Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2. pp. 3-15.
1999
Leech, Geoffrey and Wilson, A. (1999) Guidelines and standards for tagging. In: Syntactic wordclass tagging. Text, speech, and language technology (9). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 55-80. ISBN 0792358961
Biber, D. and Johansson, S. and Leech, Geoffrey and Conrad, S. and Finegan, E. (1999) Longman grammar of spoken and written English. Longman, London. ISBN 0582237254
Leech, Geoffrey and Nesi, H. (1999) Moving towards perfection: the learners’ (electronic) dictionary of the future. In: The perfect learners’ dictionary(?). Lexicographica. Series maior (95). Niemeyer, Tübingen. ISBN 3484309954
Leech, Geoffrey and Wilson, Andrew (1999) Standards for Tagsets. In: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging. Text, speech, and language technology (9). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 55-80. ISBN 0792358961
Leech, Geoffrey (1999) The distribution and function of vocatives in American and British English conversation. In: Out of corpora: studies in honour of Stig Johansson. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 107-118. ISBN 9042005157
Leech, Geoffrey and Smith, N. (1999) The use of tagging. In: Syntactic wordclass tagging. Text, speech, and language technology (9). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 23-36. ISBN 0792358961
1997
Rayson, P. and Leech, G. and Hodges, M. (1997) Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics., 2 (1). pp. 133-152.
Rayson, Paul and Leech, Geoffrey and Hodges, Mary (1997) Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2 (1). pp. 133-152. ISSN (printed): 1384-6655. ISSN (electronic): 1569-9811