TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biber, Douglas
AU  - Gray, Bethany
TI  - Grammatical complexity in academic English: linguistic change in writing 
SN  - 9781108712958
AV  - P  128.C664 B52G 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - ENGLISH LANGUAGE
KW  - GRAMMAR
KW  - COMPLEXITY (LINGUISTICS)
KW  - ACADEMIC WRITING
KW  - RESEARCH
KW  - LINGUISTIC CHANGE
N1  - 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
ER  -