Gerhard Leitner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Gerhard Leitner plays a role.

Title

English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective

Edited by Gerhard Leitner

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 62] 1991. x, 392 pp.

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | History of linguistics | Syntax

Articles (11) | Order by:

Leitner, Gerhard 2007 Australia’s “Asia competence” and the Uneasy Balance between Asian Languages and English Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction, Zhu, Yunxia and Herbert Hildebrandt (eds.), pp. 29–60 | Article

Australia’s policies on languages of the late 1980s were characterized by a balance between the community and broader needs of the nation on the one hand and European and Asian languages on the other. In a climate of ever stronger economic rationalism, globalization and shrinking resources these… read more

Leitner, Gerhard 2000 Lexical Frequencies in a 300 Million Word Corpus of Australian Newspapers. Analysis and Interpretation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 5:2, pp. 147–178 | Article

Corpus linguistics, descriptive, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics use corpora and generalise their findings beyond the samples contained in them. That raises the problem of the representativity of the data base and of the application of methods for the presentation of findings. Although… read more

Leitner, Gerhard 1999 Review of Fries, Muller & Schneider (1997): From AElfric to the New York Times. Studies in English corpus linguistics & Ljung (1997/388): Corpus-based studies in English. Papers from the seventeenth International Conference of English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17). Stockholm, May 15-19, 1996 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4:2, pp. 336–341 | Review

Leitner, Gerhard 1996 Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds. Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding English World-Wide 17:1, pp. 135–138 | Article

Leitner, Gerhard 1993 Review of Bailey, Maynor & Cukor-Avila (1991): The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary Language Problems and Language Planning 17:3, pp. 286–288 | Review

Leitner, Gerhard 1991 E.A. Maetzner English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective, Leitner, Gerhard (ed.), pp. 233–256 | Article

Leitner, Gerhard 1991 Europe 1992: A Language Perspective Language Problems and Language Planning 15:3, pp. 282–296 | Article

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Europa 1992: eine sprachliche Perspektive Die Europaische Gemeinschaft praktiziert seit ihrer Griindung im Jahre 1952 eine föderalistische Sprachformel. Der Druck hin zu einer (mehr) zentralistischen, hegemonialen Praxis ist allerdings sehr stark. Abgesehen von den enormen Kosten,… read more

Leitner, Gerhard 1991 “Why can’t someone write a nice simple grammar?” English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective, Leitner, Gerhard (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Leitner, Gerhard 1985 Towards a History of English Studies in Europe: Proceedings of the Wildsteig-Symposium, April 30–May 3, 1982. Ed. By Thomas Finkenstaedt and Gertrud Scholtes Historiographia Linguistica 12:3, pp. 423–433 | Review

Leitner, Gerhard 1984 Australian English or English in Australia — Linguistic Identity or Dependence in Broadcast Language English World-Wide 5:1, pp. 55–85 | Article

Leitner, Gerhard 1984 Review of Radden (1979): Ein Profil soziolinguistischer Variation in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt Language Problems and Language Planning 8:1, pp. 112–116 | Review