Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of
EnglishLinguistics at Lancaster University, where he hasbeen a
faculty member for over 40 years. He haspublished many books and
articles in the fields ofEnglish grammar, stylistics, pragmatics,
semanticsand corpus linguistics. His research career dates from the
1960s, when he produced three books (English in Advertising, A
Linguistic Guide to English Poetry,and Towards a Semantic
Description of English), and extends to the present time: his
recent works include Language in Literature (2008) and (with
Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith) Change in
Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study (2009). Among his
best-known books are Meaning and the English Verb (1971; 3rd ed.
2004), (with Jan Svartvik) A Communicative Grammar of English
(1975; 3rd ed. 2002), Principles of Pragmatics (1983), and (with
Randolph Quirk, Sidney.Greenbaum and Jan Svartvik) A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language (1985). In the 1970s, he was a
pioneer in the development of computer corpus linguistics, creating
with Stig Johansson and others the first available corpus of
British English, the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus.Later he led the
Lancaster team as part of the BNC consortium that created the
British National Corpus (1991-5). He studied at MIT for a year in
1964-5,was awarded the distinction of Honorary Professor at Beijing
Foreign Studies University in 1994, and has also held visiting
positions in Australia, France,Japan, New Zealand and the USA. He
was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
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