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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2016
    26 May 2016
    ISBN:
    9780511920776
    9781107009264
    9781108712958
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920776
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.57kg, 292 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.426kg, 292 Pages
    • Series:
    Studies in English Language
    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, History of the English Language
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    Series:
    Studies in English Language
    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, History of the English Language
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    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 work establishes that academic writing is structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.

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    'This book is most useful for linguists or academic scholars interested in language change, textual features (especially as those features intersect with communicative or social functions), and/or corpus-based research.'

    Jessie Sams Source: Linguist List

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