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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: Longman; 2nd Revised edition edition (20 Jul 1987)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0582305314
  • ISBN-13: 978-0582305311
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 717,676 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This well-established standard textbook deals with areas of the English language which are well-known `trouble spots' for the foreign learner: tense, progressive and perfect aspects, mood and the modal auxiliaries.



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This new updated third edition confirms Professor Leech's pre-eminence in the field. The book is still the clearest and most authoritative statement of meaning in the verb phrase, and the revised extended treatment of modality and mood constitutes a new standard for English language study. The writing is clear, precise and combines complexity with accessibility. Descriptive linguists, applied linguists, critical discourse analysts, teachers and students of the English language across the world will continue to reach for this book again and again. Professor Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham

 

This new edition, taking into account recent studies on English grammar, is elaborately organized with lucid and insightful descriptions of the relationship between form and meaning - indispensably valuable work that will no doubt greatly benefit teachers and students of English as a second/foreign language. Professor Miyazaki Akio, Mie University, Japan

 

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English language, some of the biggest yet most fascinating problems are concentrated in the area of the finite verb phrase: in particular, tense, aspect, mood and modality.

Meaning and the English Verb describes these fields in detail for teachers and advanced students of English as a foreign or second language. This new third edition uses up-to-date examples to show differences and similarities between American and British english, reflecting a great deal of recent research in this area. It also takes account of the subtle changes which are taking place in the language today.

In print for over 30 years, Meaning and the English Verb has established itself as a recognised authority on the meaning and use of verb constructions in English. This updated third edition will ensure that it remains an invaluable text for teachers and students of English worldwide.

 

Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University. He has published 20 books with Longman, including 'A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry' and 'A Communicative Grammar of English'.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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I can dug up probability of ENGLISH as an exact science,like physics.Though Leech is a native speaker, he sees his own language through keen intuition. I could see the sape of a genuine scholar in him. Great achievment.
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The order arrived rather quickly, but what I wasn't expected was that the top of pages were uncut, so I had to do it myself, page by page, and the effect, you can imagine, was not extremely eye pleasing.
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