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The phraseological view of language : a tribute to John Sinclair /

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 It provides both a discussion of Sinclair's seminal work including unpublished pieces of his manuscripts as well as articles from linguists of various fields demonstrating the relevance of this topic in theor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sinclair, John, 1933-2007, Herbst, Thomas, 1953-, Faulhaber, Susen, 1978-, Uhrig, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.