Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
[Benjamins Current Topics, 18] 2009. viii, 124 pp.
Rosamund Moon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rosamund Moon plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2 (2007) 156 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Articles
2011 English adjectives in -like, and the interplay of collocation and morphology International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16:4, pp. 486–513 | Article
This paper presents a corpus-based study of English denominal adjectives in -like. Starting with semantic aspects, including the relationship between N-like and like an N, it then reports on the productivity of -like adjectives by discussing the kinds of nouns to which -like is added, along with… read more
2009 Sinclair, lexicography, and the Cobuild Project: The application of theory Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 1–22 | Article
2008 19. Dictionaries and collocation Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 313–336 | Article
This chapter discusses the treatment of phraseology in dictionaries: its specific focus is on collocation and on English. It first describes the collocational behaviour of three words (river, rivet, riven), as observed in a large corpus of current English. It then considers the ways in which their… read more
2008 Conventionalized as -similes in English: A problem case International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:1, pp. 3–37 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus-based investigation of conventionalized English similes which follow the pattern (as) ADJECTIVE as NOUN GROUP. It begins by describing their formal and semantic characteristics, and then discusses issues of variation, approaches to handling variation, and procedures… read more
2007 Sinclair, lexicography, and the Cobuild Project: The application of theory Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), pp. 159–181 | Article
This paper discusses John Sinclair’s work in the field of lexicography by focussing on the first edition of the Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary (1987), which was written within the Department of English at the University of Birmingham, and of which Sinclair was Editor in Chief. It… read more
2007 Editor's note Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair, Moon, Rosamund (ed.), p. | Miscellaneous
1999 Idiom variation in Italian and English: Two corpus-based studies Languages in Contrast 2:2, pp. 279–300 | Article
This article reports on two parallel but independent studies of idiom variation in corpora — one of Italian and one of English. In the Italian study, 324 idiomatic expressions were looked for in a corpus of 16 million words, while the English study investigated more than 2,800 idioms in an… read more
1996 Cobuild: The State of the Art International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 303–314 | Miscellaneous