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 dependent clauses. The
authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic
change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well
as speech. This work establishes that academic writing is
structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often
not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific
academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important
grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than
being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout
with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse
analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as
descriptive linguists and historical linguists.
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