Corpora: Historical background of Corpus Linguistics

[Tony Berber Sardinha]

Dear Charo de Felipe and Ramesh

Some of the early publications by Sinclair have appeared in the following
collection, such as his 1966 'beginning the study of lexis' paper:

Foley, J. A. (Ed.). (1996). *J M Sinclair on Lexis and Lexicography*. Singapore:
UniPress.

The 1970 OSTI report is not included there, though.

cheers
tony.
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Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
LAEL, PUC/SP
(Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
tony4 at uol.com.br
http://lael.pucsp.br/~tony
[New website]

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From: <ramesh at ccl.bham.ac.uk>
To: <chadefe at lia.uva.es>
Cc: <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Sent: quarta-feira, 17 de abril de 2002 19:34
Subject: Corpora: Historical background of Corpus Linguistics


> Dear Charo de Felipe
>
> As far as I know, one of the earliest (perhaps *the* earliest)
> publication of linguistic research using an electronic corpus
> was:
>
> J. McH. Sinclair, S. Jones, and R. Daley
> English Lexical Studies:
> Report to OSTI on Project C/LP/08
> Department of English
> University of Birmingham
> January 1970
>
> Unfortunately, very few copies of this seminal work
> were made publicly available, so it may also be of
> interest that it is currently being prepared for
> re-publication by Birmingham University, and will
> probably appear later this year.
>
> Best wishes
> Ramesh
>
> Ramesh Krishnamurthy
> Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham;
> Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton;
> Consultant, Cobuild and Bank of English Corpus, Collins Dictionaries.
>
>
>
>