Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing

by Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray

Book Overview

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well as speech. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108712959
• ISBN13: 9781108712958
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"