Grammatical complexity in academic English : linguistic change in writing /
Biber, Douglas
Grammatical complexity in academic English : linguistic change in writing / Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University ; Bethany Gray, Iowa State University. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 - xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.
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.
9781108712958
ENGLISH LANGUAGE--GRAMMAR
COMPLEXITY (LINGUISTICS)
ACADEMIC WRITING--RESEARCH
LINGUISTIC CHANGE
P 128.C664 / B52G 2019
Grammatical complexity in academic English : linguistic change in writing / Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University ; Bethany Gray, Iowa State University. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 - xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.
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.
9781108712958
ENGLISH LANGUAGE--GRAMMAR
COMPLEXITY (LINGUISTICS)
ACADEMIC WRITING--RESEARCH
LINGUISTIC CHANGE
P 128.C664 / B52G 2019