English Collocation Studies

The OSTI Report

Robert Daley, Susan Jones, John Sinclair, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780826474896
• eBook ISBN: 9781441176349
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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 The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in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

• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Editor's Preface
• Interview with John Sinclair conducted
• English Lexical Studies: Report to OSTI on Project C/LP/08
• INTRODUCTION
• 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
• APPENDICES: (Edited for this publication)
• APPENDIX: Sample from the Spoken English Text
• REFERENCES
• INDEX