Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University. Bethany Gray is Assistant Professor of English (Applied Linguistics and Technology) at Iowa State University.

• 1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.

'This book is most useful for linguists or academic scholars interested in language change, textual features (especially as those features intersect with communicative or social functions), and/or corpus-based research.' Jessie Sams, Linguist List

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University. Bethany Gray is Assistant Professor of English (Applied Linguistics and Technology) at Iowa State University.

• 1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.

'This book is most useful for linguists or academic scholars interested in language change, textual features (especially as those features intersect with communicative or social functions), and/or corpus-based research.' Jessie Sams, Linguist List

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University. Bethany Gray is Assistant Professor of English (Applied Linguistics and Technology) at Iowa State University.

• 1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.

'This book is most useful for linguists or academic scholars interested in language change, textual features (especially as those features intersect with communicative or social functions), and/or corpus-based research.' Jessie Sams, Linguist List