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Grammatical complexity in academic English : linguistic change in writing /
"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 depend...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in English language
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| Online Access: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/09264/cover/9781107009264.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.