List of Figures List of Tables Permissions PART I: The Register-Functional Perspective on Complexity Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistic Foundation of the Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity Chapter 3: Overview of the Analytical Methods Used in Register-Functional Complexity Research PART II: Descriptive Linguistic Studies of Synchronic Patterns Chapter 4: On the complexity of discourse complexity: A multidimensional analysis Chapter 5: Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness Chapter 6: On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity Chapter 7: Stance and grammatical complexity: An unlikely partnership discovered through corpus analysis PART III: Descriptive Linguistic Studies of Diachronic Patterns Chapter 8: Grammatical change in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use Chapter 9: Being specific about historical change: The influence of sub-register Chapter 10: Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing Chapter 11: The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing Chapter 12: The loss of explicitness in academic research writing PART IV: Applied Research Chapter 13: Rationale and hypotheses for the study of writing development from the RF perspective Chapter 14: Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development? Chapter 15: Predicting patterns of grammatical complexity across language exam task types and proficiency levels. Chapter 16: Academic writing development at the university level: Phrasal and clausal complexity across level of study, discipline, and genre Chapter 17: Understanding first-year L2 writing: A lexico-grammatical analysis across L1s, genres, and language ratings Chapter 18: Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students Chapter 19: The longitudinal development of grammatical complexity at the phrasal and clausal levels in spoken and written responses to the TOEFL iBT test Chapter 20: Investigating grammatical complexity in L2 English writing research: Linguistic description versus predictive measurement PART V: Conclusion Chapter 21: Reflecting on the Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity: What do we know and where do we go from here? References Index.