Sinclair on collocation

Barnbrook, Geoff

doi:10.1075/ijcl.12.2.06bar

Article published In: Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2] 2007
► pp. 183–199

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Sinclair on collocation

Geoff Barnbrook | University of Birmingham

Published online: 27 June 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.2.06bar

This paper reassesses the description of collocation given by Sinclair in Chapter 8 of Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, in particular the implications of this description for models of language production and interpretation, contrasting the open choice and idiom principles. The concepts of independent and dependent meanings are explored, along with the relationship between texts and grammar. The arguments put forward in the Chapter are evaluated against collocation evidence obtained from a large reference corpus.

Keywords: collocation, idiom, meaning, grammar, corpus

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