English Collocation Studies | The Osti Report

John McHardy Sinclair (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0826474888 / ISBN 13: 9780826474889

Published by Continnuum-3PL, 2004

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English Collocation Studies | The Osti Report | John McHardy Sinclair (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2004 | Continnuum-3PL | EAN 9780826474889 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Collocation Studies | The Osti Report
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826474888
• ISBN 13: 9780826474889
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 18D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 529 grams
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Synopsis

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 The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in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 Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report.

The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.

About the Authors

Susan Jones is at the Department of Informatics, London City University.

John Sinclair (1933-2007) was President of the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy and held the title Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham, UK

Ramesh Krishnamurthy is a lecturer in English Studies, Aston University.

Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.