Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unif

This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The

This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred yea

Standard English has evolved and developed in many ways over the past hundred years. From pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar, this concise survey clearly do