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English collocation studies : the OSTI report

John M. Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley ; edited by Ramesh Krishnamurthy ; including a new interview with John M. Sinclair ; conducted by Wolfgang Teubert

(Corpus and discourse / series editors, Wolfgang Teubert and Michaela Mahlberg, . Studies in corpus and discourse)

Continuum, c2004

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

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Description

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 The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Section One: Background
  • Section Two: Texts
  • Section Three: Significant Collocation
  • Section Four: Frequent Words
  • Section Five: Collocational Patterns of Selected Lexical Items
  • Section Six: Identifying Lexical Items
  • Section Seven: Discrimination between Two Texts Using Strength of
  • Collocation as a Discriminant
  • Appendices and References

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