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COLLINS COBUILD-ENGLISH USAGE2E+CD-ROM
The Collins COBUILD English Usage has been thoroughly revised and updated to make it easier to use, and to include hundreds of new, updated examples, taken directly from the Bank of English corpus.
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817 pages, Paperback
First published July 2, 1992
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John McHardy Sinclair
40 books6 followersJohn McHardy Sinclair (June 14, 1933 – March 13, 2007), Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University, 1965 to 2000. He pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
John Sinclair was a first-generation modern corpus linguist and the founder of the COBUILD project. This project's aim was to build corpus-driven lexicons for foreign learners of English. He became chief adviser of Collins' Cobuild English Language Dictionary, whose first edition was published in 1987.
He was well-known for having unconventional ideas which helped to advance the young field of corpus linguistics. At his valedictory lecture in 2000 he stated that none of his many published articles passed successfully through peer review, and that even an article he had been invited to write for a journal was peer reviewed by mistake and rejected.
Notable works include Towards the Analysis of Discourse, which he published together with Malcolm Coulthard in 1975, Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, (Oxford University Press, 1991), Reading Concordances, 2003, Trust the Text, 2004, and Linear Unit Grammar, 2006.
After early retirement from his post as Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham, Sinclair founded the Tuscan Word Centre with his second wife Elena Tognini-Bonelli. This institution provides training courses in corpus linguistics.
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John Sinclair was a first-generation modern corpus linguist and the founder of the COBUILD project. This project's aim was to build corpus-driven lexicons for foreign learners of English. He became chief adviser of Collins' Cobuild English Language Dictionary, whose first edition was published in 1987.
He was well-known for having unconventional ideas which helped to advance the young field of corpus linguistics. At his valedictory lecture in 2000 he stated that none of his many published articles passed successfully through peer review, and that even an article he had been invited to write for a journal was peer reviewed by mistake and rejected.
Notable works include Towards the Analysis of Discourse, which he published together with Malcolm Coulthard in 1975, Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, (Oxford University Press, 1991), Reading Concordances, 2003, Trust the Text, 2004, and Linear Unit Grammar, 2006.
After early retirement from his post as Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham, Sinclair founded the Tuscan Word Centre with his second wife Elena Tognini-Bonelli. This institution provides training courses in corpus linguistics.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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January 25, 2019
La mia bibbia per l’inglese
Il titolo della recensione già dice tutto! Ho perso il conto del numero di volte che ho consultato il tomo e non è certo perché le cose non mi entrino in testa! Ogni volta c’è qualcosa da imparare, ed è pensato soprattutto a chi apprende e usa l’inglese come lingua straniera: non è pensato appositamente per gli italiani, bensì è generale, ma è ottimo in ogni caso.
Recensione originariamente pubblicata su http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/ nell’estate del 2010.
Il titolo della recensione già dice tutto! Ho perso il conto del numero di volte che ho consultato il tomo e non è certo perché le cose non mi entrino in testa! Ogni volta c’è qualcosa da imparare, ed è pensato soprattutto a chi apprende e usa l’inglese come lingua straniera: non è pensato appositamente per gli italiani, bensì è generale, ma è ottimo in ogni caso.
Recensione originariamente pubblicata su http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/ nell’estate del 2010.
February 21, 2009
I like it very much. I have the one from Canada, an older publication. However, it is the best of the best. :-))
May 10, 2011
amazing book. Mine came with a CD, which is sort of like a dictionary on a cd. I've had it for 4 years and still love this book so much!
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