by Geoffrey Leech (Author), Douglas Biber (Author), Susan Conrad (Author), Douglas Biber (Author), Geoffrey Leech (Author)
* Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English * Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact * Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text * Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points * Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: 1
Publisher: Longman
Published: 21 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0582237262
ISBN 13: 9780582237261
Douglas Biber is Professor of Applied Linguistics (English Department) at Northern Arizona University. His books and articles deal with language use in spoken and written discourse.