Meaning and the English Verb by Geoffrey Leech
This well-established standard textbook deals with areas of the English language which are well-known 'trouble spots' for the foreign learner: tense, progressive and perfect aspects, mood and the modal auxiliaries.Professor Leech is Lancaster University's Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics. In the fields of linguistics and English language, he has written, co-edited, and co-authored over 25 books and over 100 articles, specializing in stylistics, English grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and corpus linguistics. He co-authored the mammoth and authoritative A Complete Grammar of the English Language (Longman 1985) with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, and Jan Svartvik. His Elements of Pragmatics (Longman 1983) was a seminal work in pragmatics as well. He is a member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780582305311 |
| ISBN 10 | 0582305314 |
| Title | Meaning and the English Verb |
| Author | Geoffrey Leech |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education Limited |
| Year published | 1987-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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