Words, grammar, text : revisiting the work of John Sinclair / edited by Rosamund Moon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moon, Rosamund.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 18.

Benjamins current topics ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicography.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Sinclair, John, 1933-2007--Criticism and interpretation.

Sinclair, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 phraseology and grammar; semantic prosody; and the construction of meaning in text. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2 (2007).

Contents:

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

1. Preamble

2. Metalexicography: theory and principle

3. The context of the Cobuild project

3.1 The impact of Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary

4. Corpus and dictionary

5. Lexicographical innovations in CCELD

5.1 Sense and syntax, form and phraseology

5.2 Definitions and explanations

5.3 Dictionary examples

5.4 Typography

6. The fuller picture: the treatment of common words

7. Aftermath and beyond

Notes

References

Dictionaries

Other references

Sinclair on collocation

1. Introduction - a summary of Chapter 8

2. The open-choice principle

3. The idiom principle

4. The relationship between the principles

5. Claims made for the idiom principle

6. Texts, meaning and grammar

7. Evidence from grammars

8. Evidence from dictionaries - dependent and independent meaning

9. Collocation and the evidence from the corpus

10. Conclusion

Note

Appendix

Notes on the ofness of of - Sinclair and grammar

1. Introductory remarks

2. Lexicogrammar and the so-called 'Cult of the Counter-example'

3. Summary of Sinclair's view of of

4. Engaging with Sinclair's argument

5. Conclusion - Sinclair's niche in the Pantheon

Sinclair, pattern grammar and the question of hatred

1. Introduction

2. The of-phrase according to John Sinclair

3. Hatred in the pattern grammar

4. Categories and classifications in valency and dependency grammar

4.1 Operations

4.2 Dependency grammar and its categories

4.3 Complements and adjuncts

4.4 Complement and adjunct classes

4.5 The syntactic realisation of complements.

4.6 The three-level approach

5. Conclusion

Semantic prosody revisited

2. Semantic prosody: co-occurrence or discourse function?

3. Semantic prosody: observation, explanation or prediction?

4. Attitudinal meaning and register-specific corpora

Trust and text, text as trust

1. Preliminaries

2. The implications of 'inadequate evidence'

3. False projections and model-building

4. Prospection, or Don't Look Back!

5. Prior text as context, present text as communicative

6. Conclusions

Subject Index

The series Benjamins Current Topics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245367

9781282245365

1282245368

9789027289254

9027289255

OCLC:

459794608