Geoffrey Leech | |
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Born | 16 January 1936 |
Died | 19 August 2014 Lancaster, Lancashire, England | (aged 78)
Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers.[1] His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics.