Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Geoffrey Neil Leech PLIN041 Vývoj počítačové lingvistiky Michal Cukr 396221@mail.muni.cz Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University 8 April 2015 Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Overview 1 Life 2 English grammar 3 Stylistics 4 Semantics and pragmatics 5 Corpus linguistics Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Main points - 16th Jan 1936 – 19th Aug 2014 England - English language and linguistics - main academic interests: English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics and semantics - author, co-author or editor of over 30 books and over 130 published papers - gifted pianist and organist Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography His life and career 1968 graduated from University College London 1964–5 Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974–1996 Professor of English Linguistics at the Lancaster University (then emeritus) 1987 fellow of the British Academy 1987 member of the Academia Europaea honorary doctor of three universities (Charles University) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography His life and career 1968 graduated from University College London 1964–5 Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974–1996 Professor of English Linguistics at the Lancaster University (then emeritus) 1987 fellow of the British Academy 1987 member of the Academia Europaea honorary doctor of three universities (Charles University) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography His life and career 1968 graduated from University College London 1964–5 Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974–1996 Professor of English Linguistics at the Lancaster University (then emeritus) 1987 fellow of the British Academy 1987 member of the Academia Europaea honorary doctor of three universities (Charles University) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography His life and career 1968 graduated from University College London 1964–5 Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974–1996 Professor of English Linguistics at the Lancaster University (then emeritus) 1987 fellow of the British Academy 1987 member of the Academia Europaea honorary doctor of three universities (Charles University) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography His life and career 1968 graduated from University College London 1964–5 Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974–1996 Professor of English Linguistics at the Lancaster University (then emeritus) 1987 fellow of the British Academy 1987 member of the Academia Europaea honorary doctor of three universities (Charles University) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography His life and career 1968 graduated from University College London 1964–5 Harkness Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974–1996 Professor of English Linguistics at the Lancaster University (then emeritus) 1987 fellow of the British Academy 1987 member of the Academia Europaea honorary doctor of three universities (Charles University) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography English grammar co-author A Grammar of Contemporary English (R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum and J. Svartvik; 1972) “fullest and most comprehensive synchronic description of English ever written” Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Sep., 1975), p. 277 Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Stylistics A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969) raaprochement between the two aproaches (linguistic x literary) Style in Fiction (with M. H. Short; 1981) theory of prose style Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Stylistics A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969) raaprochement between the two aproaches (linguistic x literary) Style in Fiction (with M. H. Short; 1981) theory of prose style Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Stylistics A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969) raaprochement between the two aproaches (linguistic x literary) Style in Fiction (with M. H. Short; 1981) theory of prose style Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Stylistics A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969) raaprochement between the two aproaches (linguistic x literary) Style in Fiction (with M. H. Short; 1981) theory of prose style Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Semantics and pragmatics Semantics: the Study of Meaning (1974/1981) Principles of Pragmatics (1983) six maxims of the politeness: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Semantics and pragmatics Semantics: the Study of Meaning (1974/1981) Principles of Pragmatics (1983) six maxims of the politeness: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Semantics and pragmatics Semantics: the Study of Meaning (1974/1981) Principles of Pragmatics (1983) six maxims of the politeness: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Semantics and pragmatics Semantics: the Study of Meaning (1974/1981) Principles of Pragmatics (1983) six maxims of the politeness: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy The Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Corpus linguistics 1977 with Quirk, Svartvik, Francis, Johansson founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) 1978 completed first corpus of British English the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (or the LOB Corpus) developed programs for the annotation of corpora (tagger CLAWS1 and parsers) in 1980s coined term treebank, cooperation with Geoffrey Sampson in 1990s a leading role in the compilation of the British National Corpus (BNC) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Corpus linguistics 1977 with Quirk, Svartvik, Francis, Johansson founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) 1978 completed first corpus of British English the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (or the LOB Corpus) developed programs for the annotation of corpora (tagger CLAWS1 and parsers) in 1980s coined term treebank, cooperation with Geoffrey Sampson in 1990s a leading role in the compilation of the British National Corpus (BNC) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Corpus linguistics 1977 with Quirk, Svartvik, Francis, Johansson founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) 1978 completed first corpus of British English the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (or the LOB Corpus) developed programs for the annotation of corpora (tagger CLAWS1 and parsers) in 1980s coined term treebank, cooperation with Geoffrey Sampson in 1990s a leading role in the compilation of the British National Corpus (BNC) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Corpus linguistics 1977 with Quirk, Svartvik, Francis, Johansson founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) 1978 completed first corpus of British English the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (or the LOB Corpus) developed programs for the annotation of corpora (tagger CLAWS1 and parsers) in 1980s coined term treebank, cooperation with Geoffrey Sampson in 1990s a leading role in the compilation of the British National Corpus (BNC) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Corpus linguistics 1977 with Quirk, Svartvik, Francis, Johansson founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) 1978 completed first corpus of British English the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (or the LOB Corpus) developed programs for the annotation of corpora (tagger CLAWS1 and parsers) in 1980s coined term treebank, cooperation with Geoffrey Sampson in 1990s a leading role in the compilation of the British National Corpus (BNC) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech Life English grammar Stylistics Semantics and pragmatics Corpus linguistics Bibliography Bibliography Autobiography http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/doc_library/ linguistics/leechg/Autobiog.pdf Curriculum vitae http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/doc_library/ linguistics/leechg/CV.pdf In memory of Geoffrey Leech http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/geoffreyleech/ (source of the portrait) Michal Cukr Presentation about Geoffrey Leech