English collocation studies : the OSTI report / John M. Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley ; edited by Ramesh Krishnamurthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinclair, John McHardy, 1933-2007.

Contributor:

Jones, S.

Daley, Robert.

Krishnamurthy, Ramesh.

Series:

Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse.

Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collocation (Linguistics).

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halli

Contents:

section 1. Background

section 2. Texts

section 3. Significant collocation

section 4. Frequent words

section 5. Collocational patterns of selected lexical items

section 6. Identifying lexical items

section 7. Discrimination between two texts using strength of collocation as a discriminant.

Notes:

"Including a new interview with John M. Sinclair conducted by Wolfgang Teubert."

"The original of this publication is a Report of The University of Birmingham to the UK Government Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), entitled "English Lexical Studies" - the final report of the Project C/LP/08, dated January 1970."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-204) and index.

ISBN:

9786613207166

9781283207164

1283207168

9781441176349

1441176349

OCLC:

741691286