Geoffrey Leech

1936 - 2014

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

occupation: philologist, linguist, university teacher

award received: Fellow of the British Academy, honorary doctorate of Lund University

Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics. Source: Wikipedia (en)