[Corpora-List] New publication: Seminal 1970 work by John Sinclair et al on English Collocations

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to bring to your attention the recent publication (August 2004)
of a seminal work on English Collocations by John Sinclair, Susan Jones
and Robert Daley.

English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report John Sinclair and Susan Jones
and Robert Daley edited by Ramesh Krishnamurthy Continuum Books, London
and New York ISBN: 0826474896 paperback and hardback 224 pages
www.continuumbooks.com

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and
Robert Daley's research on collocation, completed in 1970. At the time,
only a few copies were circulated among the small group of specialists in
this emerging discipline. The original report was arguably the first
report on research carried out on an electronically-held corpus, and it
sparked a growth of interest in collocation among researchers in
linguistics. A prominent place for collocation in linguistics was argued
for by J.R.  Firth some fifty years ago. Soon after, M.A.K. Halliday and
John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation
Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, financed with
grants from the Government's Office for Scientific and Technical
Information.

The present edition contains an interview with John Sinclair, conducted
recently by Wolfgang Teubert. The interview 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.

John Sinclair is Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language at the
University of Birmingham. Ramesh Krishnamurthy is an Honorary Research
Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham.
Wolfgang Teubert holds the Chair of Corpus Linguistics at the University
of Birmingham.