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

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

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

What makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? This book explores that question.