Geoffrey LeechLife experience PublicationsResearchBorn in 16 January 1936 in a Jewish family in EnglandOne of the most influential linguist in the contemporary linguisticsLife experienceInfluenced by his father , a Hebrew linguistNow: Professor Emeritus, English Linguistics, Lancaster University1945，studied at University of Pennsylvania (linguistics , mathematics , philosophy )1947,a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania (influenced by professor Zellin Harris)1949,got the Bachelors Degree of Art in the University of Pennsylvania1951,finished his Masters thesis1955,finished his doctoral dissertation Transformation Analysis From 1951 to 1955, he, as a young Harvard academic association members, to begin researchFrom 1955 taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology served as the Director of the Linguistics Department and Philosophy Department served as the Director of the Cognitive Science Research Centertaught at California University, Cambridge University, London University ,etc.Harkness Fellowship (held at MIT) (1964-5) Fellow of the British Academy (1987-) Member of Academia Europaea (1989-) Fellow, University College London (1989-) Member, Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (1993-) Honorary Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University (1994-) Honorary Fellow, Lancaster University (2009-) FellowshipsMick Short and Geoffrey LeechIn May 2009, Leech as one of the organizers hosting the Thirtieth Conference of ICAME (the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English)ICAMEthe worlds oldest association for research in corpus linguisticsFrom CAMET to ICAME Notice of the meeting should be given more that thirty days in advancehold a meeting one yearICAME 2001Aims(a)to promote English corpus linguistics & applications of English corpus linguistics(b) to undertake or support the compilation(c) to include in its remit corpus- based studies of other languages of English text corpora in electronic form(d) to provide a forum for research and discussion on English corpus linguistics CareerAssistant Lecturer, University College London,1962-4Harkness Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology，1964-5Lecturer, University College London,1965-9Reader in English Language, Lancaster University 1969-74Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University，1974-1996Research Professor in English Linguistics, Lancaster University，1996-2001Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics, Lancaster University，from 2002He has written, co-authored or co-edited 29 books & over a hundred articles and papers in the areas of： English grammar literary stylistics semantics computational linguistics corpus linguistics and pragmatic Corpus-based natural language processing by computer . PublicationsSelected publicationsA Glossary of English Grammar (2006) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English (2002) An A-Z of English Grammar and Usage (2001) Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora (1997) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum and J. Svartvik) (1985) Principles of Pragmatics (1983) A Communicative Grammar of English (19751994）A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry （1969）ResearchA. Corpus Compilation and Annotation B. Corpus-based Study of English Grammar C. Other Research Interests A. Corpus Compilation and Annotation1.Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus2. world-wide release of the corpus (BNC-World) 3. the Freiburg-Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen (FLOB) and Freiburg-Brown (Frown) Corpora4.speech-act annotation of a corpus of approximately 1,000 goal-oriented service dialogues4.investigate recent changes in English grammarB. Corpus-based study of English grammar1.participated in a seven-year project to produce a 1200-page corpus-based grammar of English2.corpora throw light on the nature of grammar in the spoken language Learning3.the grammatical tagging of the BNC C. Other Research Interests1. Pragmatics2. Stylistics