Geoffrey Leech#

Obituary, by Greg Myers, Head of Department, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

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Curriculum vitae#

Long CV (August 2012)

Present post: Professor Emeritus, English Linguistics, Lancaster University

Degrees:

• B.A. (1959), M.A. (1963), PhD (1968), all at the University of London
• Fil.Dr. (Honorary Doctorate) University of Lund (1987)
• Hon.D.Litt., University of Wolverhampton (2002)
• D.Litt., Lancaster University (2002)

Fellowships, 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-)

Previous posts:

• Assistant Lecturer in English, University College London (1962-5)
• Lecturer in English, University College London (1965-9)
• Reader in English Language, Lancaster University (1969-74)
• Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University (1974-96)
• Research Professor in English Linguistics (1997-2001)

Other positions at Lancaster:

• Chairman, Institute for English Language Education (1985-90)
• Joint Director, Unit for Computer Research on the English Language UCREL (1984-95)
• Chair, University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language UCREL (1995-2002)

Main academic interests:
English grammar, semantics, stylistics, pragmatics and corpus linguistics.