Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2009
Series:Benjamins current topics v. 18
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Words, Grammar, Text; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 -- 13 March 2007); Introduction; Sinclair, lexicography, and the Cobuild Project; Sinclair on collocation; Notes on the ofness of of -- Sinclair and grammar; Sinclair, pattern grammar and the question of hatred; Semantic prosody revisited; Trust and text, text as trust; Subject Index; The series Benjamins Current Topics
John Sinclair's work is widely known and has had a far-reaching influence, particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics, lexis, phraseology, lexicography, grammar, and discourse analysis. This collection of papers, written by former colleagues at Birmingham University, looks at some key writings by John Sinclair, with the intention of showing why his ideas are of lasting significance. Contributions deal with the Cobuild Project (directed by Sinclair) and its innovative first dictionary; collocation and the Open Choice and Idiom Principles; the interactions between and interdependence of phr
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 124 pages)
ISBN:9027289255
9789027289254

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