Based on the insights and discoveries of the ground-breaking Longman Grammar of Spoken and Writte...

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English langu...

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach,...

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an a...

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English langu...

Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of ...

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are ...

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are ...

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a boo...

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations -...

Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the mos...