English Collocation Studies: The Osti Report

by Susan Jones and John McHardy Sinclair

Book Overview

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics.

Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826474888
• ISBN13: 9780826474889
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"