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Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English

Author	Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, & Edward Finegan
Subject	Comprehensive descriptive grammer of the English language
Publisher	Longman
Publication date	1999
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	1204
ISBN	9780582237254

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English ( LGSWE ) is a descriptive grammer of English written by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan, first published by Longman in 1999. It is an authoritative clarification of mod English, a successor to A Comprehensive Grammar of the English language (ComGEL) published in 1985 and a predecessor of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL) published in 2002. The authors and some reviewers consider it a complement rather than a replacement of the onetime since it follows – with few exceptions (for example in the typology of adverbials) – the grammatical framework and concepts from ComGEL, which is too corroborated by the fact that i of LGSWE's authors, Geoffrey Leech, is likewise a co-writer of ComGEL.^[one]

Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English represents a large-scale corpus-based grammar focussing in its grammatical description of English mainly on "functional estimation of the quantitative findings" (p. 41). These interpretations and findings are presented consistently throughout the volume, with an emphasis on iv major registers (functional styles), chat, fiction, news, and academic prose, occasionally supplemented by examples from two supplementary registers: general prose (non-fiction) and non-conversational speech (e.one thousand. lectures, sermons). Covering both British and American varieties of English in all of these registers but the final ane,^[2] the descriptions in LGSWE are based on a language corpus exceeding 40 one thousand thousand words and as such this grammar has been widely praised equally a new milestone in corpus-based grammatical studies.^[3]

While targeting "English linguistic communication students and researchers" (p. 45), an abridged version of the grammar was released in 2002, Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English language, together with a workbook entitled Longman Pupil Grammer of Spoken and Written English Workbook, to be used by students on university and teacher-grooming courses.

Reviews [edit]

• Görlach, 1000.: "Review of D. Biber, S. Johansson, K. Leech, S. Conrad and E. Finegan, Longman grammar of spoken and written English language (Harlow: Pearson Education, 1999)", Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25/two, 2000, pp. 257–260.
• Hirst, M.: "Review of 'The Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English'", Computational Linguistics 27/1, 2001, pp. 132–139 [1] [2].
• Krug, K.: "Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan, Longman grammar of spoken and written English. London: Longman, 1999. Hardback 9p. xii + 1,204. ISBN 0 582 23725 iv.", English Language and LinguisticsVolume 6/2, pp. 379–416 [three].
• Mukherjee, J.: "Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars" in A. Renouf (Ed.): The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 24th International Briefing on English Language Inquiry on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 24)", Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 337–354 [4].
• Parker, F.: "Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English. By Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan. Essex, England: Pearson Teaching Ltd., 1999. xxviii + 1204. ISBN 0-58-223725-four", Journal of English Linguistics 31/1, pp. 90–97 [5].
• Schmid, H.-J.: "Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English: Review of Douglas Biber, Stig Johannson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan, Pearson Education Limited, Harlow, 1999. xxviii+1204 pages", Journal of Pragmatics 35/eight, 2003, pp. 1265–1269 [6] [7].
• Schneider, East. Due west.: "Review of "Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English" by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan", English World-Wide 22/1, 2001, pp. 137–143 [8].
• Williams, H. "Review. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. D Biber, S Johansson, G Leech, Due south Conrad, E Finegan", ELT Journal 55/2, 2001, pp. 208–210 [9] [10] ^{[ dead link ]} .

Encounter besides [edit]

• A Comprehensive Grammar of the English
• Cambridge Grammer of the English language

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Hirst, Graeme (2001). "Book Reviews: Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English language". Computational Linguistics. 27 (1). Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
2. ^ Only British English language data form the basis for the non-conversational register (p. 25).
3. ^ McEnery, T., Xiao, R. and Tono, Y.: Corpus-based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2006, p. 85.

References [edit]

• D. Biber, S. Johansson, G. Leech, South. Conrad and East. Finegan: Longman Grammer of Spoken and Written English, Harlow: Pearson Education, 1999.
• D. Biber, Southward. Conrad, G. Leech: Longman Educatee Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Harlow: Pearson Education, 2002 (ISBN 9780582237261).
• South. Conrad, D. Biber, K. Leech: Longman Educatee Grammar of Spoken and Written English language Workbook, Harlow: Pearson Didactics, 2002 (978-0582539426).

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