Grammatical Complexity in Academic English - Linguistic Change in Writing

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

List of contents

1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University.Bethany Gray is Assistant Professor of English (Applied Linguistics and Technology) at Iowa State University.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Biber, Douglas (Northern Arizona University) Gray Biber, Douglas Gray Biber, Biber Douglas, Bethany Gray, Gray Bethany
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108712958
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71295-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Grammar & vocabulary, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Historical and comparative linguistics