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Collocations

Benson, J. and Greaves, W. (1983). Field of discourse: a theoretical
vantage point enabling more effective use of computer assisted
collocational analysis. Paper presented at Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Conference, San Francisco

Benson, J. and Greaves, W. (1989). Using narrow-span collocations in
parsing lexicogrammatical output of field in a natural langauge text. Paper
presented at the 16th International Systemic Workshop, Helsinki.

(available at IFA £ódŸ???) Benson, M. (1985). Collocations and Idioms. In Robert Ilson (Ed.),
Dictionaries, lexicography and language learning (pp. 61-68). Oxford:
Pergamon.

Benson, M., Benson, E., and Ilson, R. (1986). The BBI Combinatory
Dictionary of English: A Guide to Word Combinations.

(available at IFA £ódŸ???) Bolinger, D. (1985). Defining the indefinable. In Dictionaries,
Lexicography and Language Learning, R. Ilson Ed.

Bolinger, D. (1965.) The atomization of meaning. language 41 (4): 555-73

Carter, R. and McCarthy, M. (eds). (1988.) Vocabulary and Language
Teaching. London: Longman.

Cowie, A. (1988). Stable and creative aspects of vocaulary use. In R.
Carter and M. McCarthy (eds.) Vocabulary and Langauge Teaching. London:
Longman: 126-39.

Firth, J. (1951) 1957. Modes of meaning. In Papers in Linguistics
1934-1951. 190-215. Oxford: Oxford U Press.

Halliday, M. (1966). Patterns in words. The Listener, Vol. LXXV, no. 1920:
53-55.

Halliday, M. (1966b). Lexis as a linguistic level. In C.E. Bazeell, J.C.
Catford and M.A.K. Halliday, eds., In memory of J.R. Firth. London:
Longman. 148-62.

Jones, S. and Sinclair, J. (1974). Cahiers-de-Lexicologie. 24, 1, 15-61.
English lexical collocations: A study in computational linguistics. (LLBA
Disc 1973-12/94)

Keller, R. (1979). Gambits: conversational strategy signals. Journal of
Pragmatics 3:219-37.

Kennedy, G. (1989). Collocations: where grammar and vocabulary teaching
meet. Paper presented at the RELC Seminar, Singapore.

Kjellmer, G. (1984). Some thoughts on collocational distinctiveness. In
Aarts, J. and Meijs, W. (eds).Aaarts, J. and Meijs, W. (eds). 1984. Corpus
linguistics II : new studies in the analysis and

Kjellmer, G. (1987). Aspects of English Collocation. In W. Meijs (Ed.),
Corpus Linguistics and Beyond (pp. 133-140).

Krashen, S. and R. Scarcella. (1978). On routines and paterns in language
acquisition and performance. Language Learning 28: 283-300.

Mackin, R. (1978). On collocations: Words shall be known by the company
they keep. In P. Strevens (Ed.), IN HONOUR OF A.S. HORNBY (pp. 149-165).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Makkai, Adam. (1972). Idiom Structure in English. The Hague: Mouton 1972.

Mitchell, T.F. (1971). Linguistic 'going on': Collocations and other
lexical matters arising on the syntagmatic/linguistic record. ARCHIVUM
LINGUISTICUM, 2 (new series, 35-69)

Murphey, J. (1983). What goes with what. Paper presented at the Annual
Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (17th,
Toronto, Ontario, March 15-20, 1983).

Pawley, A., & Syder, H. (1983). Two puzzles for linguistic theory:
Nativelike selection and native like fluency. In J.C. Richard & R.W.
Schmidt (Eds.), LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION (pp. 191-225). New York:
Longman.

Peters, A. (1983). The Units of Language Acq. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Renouf, A. and Sinclair, J. (1991). Collocational Frameworks in English.
128-43 IN Aijmer, Karin (ed.) Altenberg, Bengt (ed.) English Corpus
Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik. London: Longman; 1991. x,
338 pp.

Renouf, A. and Sinclair, J. (1987). A Lexical Syllabus for Language
Learning in Vocabulary in Language Teaching, M.J. McCarthy and R.A. Carter
(eds). Longman

Sinclair, J. (1985). Lexicographic evidence. In Ilson, R (ed) Dictionaries,
lexicography and language learning: 81-94. Pergamon, Oxford. OR ELT
Documents: 120, Pergamon

Sinclair, J. (1987). Collocation: A progress report [19, vol. 1]. in Lang
Topics: Essays in Honor of Michael Halliday, vols 1& 2. II: 319-331 IN
Steele, Ross (ed. & introd.) Threadgold, Terry (ed.) Language Topics:
Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday, I & II. Amsterdam: Benjamins; 1987.
xxxii, 490 + xvi, 669 pp.

Sinclair, J. (1966b). Beginning the Study of Lexis. In memory of J.R. Firth
ed. by C.E. Bazell et al, 410-30. London: Longman.

Sinclair, J. (1984). Naturalness in Language in Corpus Linguistics, Aarts
and Maijs (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi. This article is also in McCarthy, M.
(1988). Naturalness in Language. English Language Research Journal Vol. 2.
University of Birmingham.

Sinclair, J. (1986). First throw away your evidence. In Leitner, G (ed) The
English Reference Grammar: Linguistische Arbeiten Volume 172. Max Niemeyer
Verlag, Tubingen.

Sinclair, J. (1987). Sense and Structure in lexis in Linguistics in a
Systemic Perspective, J. Benson, M. Cummings, and W. Greaves (eds.),
Glendon College, York University, Toronto.

Sinclair, J. (1987). Looking up: An account of the COBUILD project in
Lexical Computing. London: Collins. Be sure to also see "The nature of
evidence."

Sinclair, J. (1991). Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.

Sinclair, J. (1992). Trust the text. In Davies, Martin (ed.) Ravelli,
Louise (ed.) Advances in Systemic Linguistics: Recent Theory and Practice.
pp. 5-19 London: Pinter; 1992. ix, 258 pp.

Willis, J.D. (1990). The Lexical Syllabus. London: Collins.

Willis, J.D. and Willis, J.R. (1988). The Collins COBUILD English Course.
London: Collins

Zimmerman, C. (1993). Teachers perceptions of and strategies with Lexical
Anomalies. Paper presented at TESOL.

Corpora

Clear, J. (1987). Trawling the Language: Monitor Corpora. In Snell-Hornby
(ed.). 1987. ZuriLEX Proceedings. Tubingen: Francke.

Johansson, S. (1980). The LOB Corpus of British English Texts: Presentation
and Comments. ALLC Journal.

Johansson, S. (1982). Computer Corpora in English Language Research.
Bergen: Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities.

Johansson, S. (1985). A survey of computer-based English language resarch.
ICAME News 9. (May).

Quirk, R. and Svartvik, J. (1980). A corpus of English conversation.
Liberlaromodel, Lund.

Renouf, A. (1986). The Exploitation of a Computerised Corpus of English
Text. In M. Rivas (ed.) Actes du VIIIeme Colloque G.E.R.A.S., Universite de
Paris-Dauphine.

Renouf, A. (1983). Corpus development at Birmingham University. In Aarts, J
and Meijs, W (eds) Corpus linguistics: recent developments in the use of
computer corpora in English languaeg research. Rodopi, Amsterdam. 3-39

Renouf, A. (1987). Corpus Development. In Sinclair, J.M. (ed.). 1987.
Looking Up.

Sinclair, J. (1992c). The automatic analysis of corpora. Directions in
Corpus Linguistics. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82, Stockholm 4-8 August
1991 ed. by J. Svartvik, 379-97. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Svartvik, J. (ed.) 1990. The London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English. Lund:
Lund University Press.

Firthian Linguistics/Systemics

Benson, J., Cummings, M., and Greaves, W. (1988.) Linguistics in a Systemic
Perspective. Toronto: Glendon College, York University.

Firth, J. (1935). 1957a. The technique of semantics. In Papers in
Linguistics: 7-33. Oxford University Press.

Firth, J. (1951) 1957. Modes of meaning. In Papers in Linguistics
1934-1951. 190-215. Oxford: Oxford U Press.

Firth, J. (1957). A synopsis of linguistic theory 1930-1955. In Studies in
Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Philological Society. Reprinted in F. Palmer
(ed.). 1968, Selected Papers of J.R. Firth. Harlow: Longman.

Firth, J. (1968). Linguistic analysis as a study of meaning. In Palmer, FR
(ed) Selected Papers of JR Firth: 12-26. Longman.

Halliday, M. (1981). Text semantics and clause grammar: some patterns of
realisation. In J.E. Copeland, and P.W. Davis, eds. The Seventh Lacus
Forum, Columbia: Hornbeam Press.

Halliday, M. (1991). Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar. English
Corpus Linguistics ed by K. Aijmer & B. Altenberg, 30-43. London: Longman.

Halliday, M. (1978). Language as social semiotic. London: Arnold.

Halliday, M. (1985 c.) It's a fixed word order language is English. ITL
Review of Applied Linguistics 67-8.

Halliday, M. (1985). Language, context and text: aspects of language in a
social-semiotic perspective. Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press.

Halliday, M. (1990). Towards probabilistic interpretations. In Ventola,
Eija (ed.) (1991). Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and
Uses. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter.

Halliday, M. and Hassan, R. (1976) Cohesion in English. London: Longman.

(available from IFA £ódŸ???) Ilson, R. (ed.) (1985). Dictionaries, Lexicography and Language Learning.
(ELT Documents 120) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Mitchell, T.F. (1975). Principles of Firthian linguistics. Longman.

Sinclair, J. (1980a). Discourse in relation to language structure and
semiotics. In S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartvik, eds., Studies in
English linguistics for Randolph Quirk. London: Longman. 110-124.

Sinclair, J. (1984). Naturalness in Language in Corpus Linguistics, Aarts
and Maijs (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi. This article is also in McCarthy, M.
(1988). Naturalness in Language. English Language Research Journal Vol. 2.
University of Birmingham.

Reference Books

Benson, M., Benson, E., and Ilson, R. (1986). The BBI Combinatory
Dictionary of English: A Guide to Word Combinations. John Benjamin
Publishing Company.

Benson, M., Benson, E., Ilson, R., and Young. (1991). Using the BBI: A
Workbook exercises for the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. John
Benjamin Publishing Company.

Collins COBUILD English Grammar. (1990).

Benson, M., Benson, E., and Ilson, R. (1986). The BBI Combinatory
Dictionary of English: A Guide to Word Combinations.

Cowie, A. and R. Mackin. (1975). Oxford dictionary of current idiomatic
English, vol. 1: verbs with prepositions and particles. London: Oxford
University Press.

Cowie, A., Mackin, R., and I. McCaig. (1983). Oxford dictionary of current
idiomatic English, vol. 2: phrase, clause and sentence idioms. London:
Oxford University Press.

Kjellmer, G. (1994). A Dictionary of English Collocations: Based on the
Brown Corpus
3 volume set. Oxford University Press.

Sinclair, J. and Moon, R. et al. (1989). Collins Cobuild Dictionary of
Phrasal Verbs, London, Colling.

Sinclair, J. et al (forthcoming.) English Words in Use. London: Collins.

Sinclair, J. et al. (1995). The Collins Cobuild English Dictionary. London.
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/cob2flash.html

Wang, Wenchang, Ed. (1988). A Dictionary of English Collocations
(English/Chinese) "Yingyu Dapei Dacidian" Suzhou University, China.
Published by the Jiangsu Jiaoyu Chubanshe. 1928 pages. ISBN 7-5343-0400-8.
The dictionary is also published in Taiwan by the Zhongyang (Central) Tushu
(book) Chubanshe (publisher), 1990, ISBN 957-637-082-5, fax: (02)3311316.

Related Topics

Sinclair, J. (1984). Lexicography as an Academic Subject, in Hartmann,
R.R.K. (ed.) LEXter Ô83 Proceedings. Lexicographica Series Maior. Tubingen:
Niemayer.

Willis, D. (1993). Grammar and Lexis: Some Pedagogical Implications. In
Techniques in Description: Spoken and Written Discourse.

Other Bibliographies/Books on the Web

Edwards, Jane A. & Martin D. Lampert (eds). Talking Data: Transcription and
coding in discourse research. London and Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. To order
in US: 1-800-926-6579.
ftp://cogsci.berkeley.edu/pub/CorpusSurvey.ascii

CETH/CCH Bibliography
Includes information on concordances and corpus linguistics.
http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/bibliography/bib4a-d.html

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