Geoff Barnbrook

List of John Benjamins publications in which Geoff Barnbrook is involved.

Titles

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics is a collection of interviews with fourteen well-known researchers in the field of linguistics. Each interview consists of a set of ten questions: the first seven are common to all contributors while the last three are connected to the research experience of each… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 48] 2011. xvi, 256 pp.

Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences

Geoff Barnbrook

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Viana, Vander, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook 2011 Preface Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics, Viana, Vander, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook (eds.), pp. xi–xvi | Preface

Barnbrook, Geoff 2009 Sinclair on collocation Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 23–38 | Article

Barnbrook, Geoff 2007 Sinclair on collocation Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 183–199 | Article

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… read more

Barnbrook, Geoff and John McH. Sinclair 2001 9. Specialised corpus, local and functional grammars Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. 237–278 | Article

Barnbrook, Geoff 1998 Review of Thomas & Short (1996): Using Corpora for Language Research. Studies in the Honour of Geoffrey Leech International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:1, pp. 176–180 | Review

Barnbrook, Geoff 1993 The Automatic Analysis of Dictionaries — Parsing Cobuild Explanations Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), pp. 313–332 | Article