| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- I John McH. Sinclair and his contribution to linguistics -- Preface -- Contents -- A tribute to John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933-13 March 2007) -- Corpus, lexis, discourse: a tribute to John Sinclair -- II The concept of collocation: theoretical and pedagogical aspects -- Choosing sandy beaches -- collocations, probabemes and the idiom principle -- Sinclair revisited: beyond idiom and open choice -- Accessing second-order collocation through lexical co-occurrence networks -- From phraseology to pedagogy: challenges and prospects -- Chunks and the effective learner -- a few remarks concerning foreign language teaching and lexicography -- Exploring the phraseology of ESL and EFL varieties -- III Variation and change -- Wnting the history of spoken standard English in the twentieth century -- Prefabs in spoken English -- Observations on the phraseology of academic writing: local patterns -- local meanings? -- Collocational behaviour of different types of text -- IV Computational aspects -- Corpus linguistics, generative grammar and database semantics -- Chunk parsing in corpora -- German noun+verb collocations in the sentence context: morphosyntactic properties contributing to idiomaticity -- Author index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
The volume contains articles focussing on the role of prefabricated items in language. It provides both a discussion of Sinclair's seminal work including unpublished pieces of his manuscripts as well as articles from linguists of various fields demonstrating the relevance of this topic in theoretical as well as more applied contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis
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Computational linguistics.
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Linguistics -- Methodology.
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computational linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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REFERENCE -- Word Lists.
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Computational linguistics
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Discourse analysis
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Linguistics -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sinclair, John, 1933-2007.
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Herbst, Thomas, 1953-
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Faulhaber, Susen, 1978-
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Uhrig, Peter
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| ISBN |
9783110257014 |
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3110257017 |
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128340057X |
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9781283400572 |
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