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International Journal of Lexicography Advance Access published online on August 6, 2008
International Journal of Lexicography, doi:10.1093/ijl/ecn031
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The Lexicographical Legacy of John Sinclair

Patrick Hanks

Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ (hanks{at}fi.muni.cz)


  Abstract

John Sinclair opened up possibilities for new kinds of dictionaries. He assigned a central role to collocations and phraseology, insisting on close attention to textual evidence coupled with a broad theoretical perspective and ruthless jettisoning of hypotheses that do not fit the facts. He aimed to create dictionaries that would help students to write and speak idiomatically. In the tradition of Dr Johnson and OED, these would be based on evidence rather than speculation, but evidence of contemporary usage, not literary citations. In this paper, I look at some possibilities inspired by this approach. I suggest that a synthesis between Sinclairian corpus linguistics and construction grammar is overdue.


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