Grammar of Spoken and Written English

by Stig Johansson, Douglas Biber, Geoffrey N. Leech

The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of language use for each grammatical feature, based on empirical analyses of grammatical patterns in a 40-million-word corpus of spoken and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027207968
• ISBN13: 9789027207968
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 1220 Pages