English Collocation Studies
The Osti Report
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2004
240 pages
978-1-4411-7634-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in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 and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report.
The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.
Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report.
The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.
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English
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New York
United States
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978-1-4411-7634-9 (9781441176349)
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Persons
Susan Jones is at the Department of Informatics, London City University. John Sinclair (1933-2007) was President of the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy and held the title Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham, UK Ramesh Krishnamurthy is a lecturer in English Studies, Aston University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Editor's Preface
- Interview with John Sinclair conducted
- English Lexical Studies: Report to OSTI on Project C/LP/08
- Acknowledgements
- Steering Committee
- Staff
- Organisation of the Report
- INTRODUCTION
- Grammar Versus Lexis
- Span
- Lexical Items
- Loose Ends
- SECTION 1: BACKGROUND
- 1.1 Definition of Specialized Terms used in the Report
- 1.2 Brief History of the Project: Edinburgh
- 1.3 Brief History of the Project: Birmingham
- 1.4 Possibilities for Future Research
- SECTION 2: TEXTS
- 2.0 Introduction
- 2.1 The Spoken English Text
- 2.2 The Brown University Text
- 2.3 The Scientific Text
- 2.4 Experiments in Obtaining Text from Informants
- 2.5 Literary Texts
- 2.6 Discussion of the Statistical Characteristics of Texts
- SECTION 3: SIGNIFICANT COLLOCATION
- 3.0 Definitions
- 3.1 Population and Sample
- 3.2 Significance at a Span Position and Significance within a Span
- 3.3 Significance Tests Used
- 3.4 Level of Significance and Minimum Number of Occurrences
- 3.5 Test Decisions
- 3.6 Span
- 3.7 Prediction on the Left and on the Right
- 3.8 Point of Maximum Difference
- 3.9 Calculation of Expected Values and Variances
- 3.10 Methods Used in Section 3.6
- SECTION 4: FREQUENT WORDS
- 4.0 Introduction
- 4.1 An Examination of Some Grammatical Items
- 4.2 Semi-Grammatical Items
- SECTION 5: COLLOCATIONAL PATTERNS OF SELECTED LEXICAL ITEMS
- 5.0 Introduction
- 5.1 Selection of Data
- 5.2 Production of Collocational Information
- 5.3 Analysis of Collocational Information
- 5.4 Statistical Considerations
- SECTION 6: IDENTIFYING LEXICAL ITEMS
- 6.0 Introduction
- 6.1 Multiword Items
- 6.2 Homographs
- 6.3 Paradigms
- SECTION 7: DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN TWO TEXTS USING STRENGTH OF COLLOCATION AS A DISCRIMINANT
- 7.0 Introduction
- 7.1 Texts
- 7.2 Test Words
- 7.3 Discrimination using Bayes Theorem
- 7.4 Choosing the Prior Distribution of f
- 7.5 Discussion of the Use of Bayes Formula in Deriving Posterior Odds
- 7.6 Choosing the Collocates
- 7.7 The Disputed Text
- 7.8 Conclusions
- APPENDICES: (Edited for this publication)
- Section 1
- Appendix li: Program Descriptions
- Section 2
- Appendix 2i: Words in text with 10 or more occurrences (Rank Order)
- Appendix 2ii: Words in text with 10 or more occurrences (Alphabetical Order)
- Appendix 2iii: Part of first synthetic text
- Appendix 2iv: Significant collocates (second synthetic text)
- Section 4
- Appendix 4i: Collocational tables for grammatical items
- Appendix 4iA: the, a
- Appendix 4iB: and
- Appendix 4iC: of, in, and to
- Appendix 4iD: I, you, it (spoken text only)
- Appendix 4ii: Selection from the available collocation information for semi-grammatical items
- Section 5
- Appendix 5i: Collocations significant with only 2 occurrences
- Appendix 5ii: Collocational patterns for selected lexical items
- Section 6
- Appendix 6i: Concordance of right with minority meanings marked
- Appendix 6ii: Classified occurrences of way
- Appendix 6iii: Collocates significant with come/came
- Appendix 6iv: Classified occurrences of year/years
- Appendix 6iv: Collocates significant with year/years
- Appendix 6v: Classified occurrences of word/words
- Appendix 6v: Collocates significant with word/words
- Appendix 6vi: The "Red Herring" Results
- APPENDIX: Sample from the Spoken English Text
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
