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"This eventually led to the completion of the LOB (Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen) Corpus, with the help of Stig Johansson (Professor of English Language at Oslo) and two Norwegian Universities.
Below, these interest areas are demonstrated: Corpus Compilation and Annotation Over the past forty years, a major research interest of Leech has been the use of computer corpora for the analysis and processing of the English Language.
He participated in a seven-year project sponsored by the publishers Longman and led by Doug Biber (Northern Arizona University), to produce a 1200-page corpus-based grammar of English, focusing on American and British English and on the four registers of conversation, fiction writing, news writing, and academic writing.
The book was eventually published in 1999 as Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (LGSWE) by Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, and Finegan.
Three strengths of the book are: • its extensive investigation of grammatical frequency • its detailed study of differences in the use of grammar in different varieties of language, and • its thorough exemplification of present-day English grammar through the citation of thousands of corpus examples After the publication of this 'big' grammar, three members of the team (Biber, Conrad, & Leech) wrote a shorter students' version, Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, together with an accompanying Workbook.
Geoff also published, with Pearson/Longman, a book entitled Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding (2008), containing eight articles on the stylistic analysis of poetry, prose and drama published in the period 1965-1992, as well as four new chapters both theoretical and applied, including one on corpus stylistics."