Words, grammar, text : revisiting the work of John Sinclair / / edited by Rosamund Moon

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (133 p.)
• Disciplina: 413.028
• Soggetto topico: Lexicography; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Altri autori: MoonRosamund
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Words, Grammar, Text -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 - 13 March 2007) -- Introduction -- Sinclair, lexicography, and the Cobuild Project -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Metalexicography: theory and principle -- 3. The context of the Cobuild project -- 3.1 The impact of Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary -- 4. Corpus and dictionary -- 5. Lexicographical innovations in CCELD -- 5.1 Sense and syntax, form and phraseology -- 5.2 Definitions and explanations -- 5.3 Dictionary examples -- 5.4 Typography -- 6. The fuller picture: the treatment of common words -- 7. Aftermath and beyond -- Notes -- References -- Dictionaries -- Other references -- Sinclair on collocation -- 1. Introduction - a summary of Chapter 8 -- 2. The open-choice principle -- 3. The idiom principle -- 4. The relationship between the principles -- 5. Claims made for the idiom principle -- 6. Texts, meaning and grammar -- 7. Evidence from grammars -- 8. Evidence from dictionaries - dependent and independent meaning -- 9. Collocation and the evidence from the corpus -- 10. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Appendix -- Notes on the ofness of of - Sinclair and grammar -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Lexicogrammar and the so-called 'Cult of the Counter-example' -- 3. Summary of Sinclair's view of of -- 4. Engaging with Sinclair's argument -- 5. Conclusion - Sinclair's niche in the Pantheon -- References -- Sinclair, pattern grammar and the question of hatred -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The of-phrase according to John Sinclair -- 3. Hatred in the pattern grammar -- 4. Categories and classifications in valency and dependency grammar -- 4.1 Operations -- 4.2 Dependency grammar and its categories -- 4.3 Complements and adjuncts -- 4.4 Complement and adjunct classes -- 4.5 The syntactic realisation of complements. ; 4.6 The three-level approach -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Semantic prosody revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic prosody: co-occurrence or discourse function? -- 3. Semantic prosody: observation, explanation or prediction? -- 4. Attitudinal meaning and register-specific corpora -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Trust and text, text as trust -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The implications of 'inadequate evidence' -- 3. False projections and model-building -- 4. Prospection, or Don't Look Back! -- 5. Prior text as context, present text as communicative -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Subject Index -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.
• Sommario/riassunto: John Sinclair's work is widely known and has had a far-reaching influence, particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics, lexis, phraseology, lexicography, grammar, and discourse analysis. This collection of papers, written by former colleagues at Birmingham University, looks at some key writings by John Sinclair, with the intention of showing why his ideas are of lasting significance. Contributions deal with the Cobuild Project (directed by Sinclair) and its innovative first dictionary; collocation and the Open Choice and Idiom Principles; the interactions between and interdependence of phraseology and grammar; semantic prosody; and the construction of meaning in text. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2 (2007).
• Titolo autorizzato: Words, grammar, text
• ISBN: 9786612245367; 9781282245365; 1282245368; 9789027289254; 9027289255
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910971559403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Benjamins current topics ; ; v. 18.