Douglas Biber et al., Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Elizabeth Rowley‐Jolivet · Les Cahiers de l APLIUT · 2002
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (LGSWE) is a major study of contemporary English, incorporating many new and revealing findings, and should prove to be an essential reference work for many years to come. The authors define their approach unambiguously as descriptive, rather than theoretical, and present the work as a companion to A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Quirk et al. 1985), adopting similar terminology and concepts to those of the earlier work. In se...