...Register variation is foregrounded in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999) co-authored by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan. One of the goals of this grammar, which is based on a large corpus of British and American English,...

...Leech, Conrad, Finegan 1999 The 1999 Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (henceforth LGSWE) by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan, can certainly be regarded as a landmark in linguistic analysis and description. As the authors state...