Biber Douglas. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Pearson Education ESL, 1999. — 1203 p. — ISBN10: 0582237254, ISBN13: 978-0582237254Authors: Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan.
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is an entirely new grammar of American and British English - from the language of conversation to the language of academic textbooks. There are no made-up examples in this groundbreaking new grammar. The authors began, not with preconceived notions of the grammar of English, but with a huge bank of language data, the Longman Corpus Network