Exploring the phraseology of ESL and EFL varieties

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. I John McH. Sinclair and his contribution to linguistics
3. Preface V
4. Contents XI
5. A tribute to John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933-13 March 2007) 1
6. Corpus, lexis, discourse: a tribute to John Sinclair 17
7. II The concept of collocation: theoretical and pedagogical aspects
8. Choosing sandy beaches - collocations, probabemes and the idiom principle 27
9. Sinclair revisited: beyond idiom and open choice 59
10. Accessing second-order collocation through lexical co-occurrence networks 87
11. From phraseology to pedagogy: challenges and prospects 123
12. Chunks and the effective learner - a few remarks concerning foreign language teaching and lexicography 147
13. Exploring the phraseology of ESL and EFL varieties 159
14. III Variation and change
15. Wnting the history of spoken standard English in the twentieth century 179
16. Prefabs in spoken English 197
17. Observations on the phraseology of academic writing: local patterns - local meanings? 211
18. Collocational behaviour of different types of text 229
19. IV Computational aspects
20. Corpus linguistics, generative grammar and database semantics 243
21. Chunk parsing in corpora 269
22. German noun+verb collocations in the sentence context: morphosyntactic properties contributing to idiomaticity 283
23. Author index 313
24. Subject index 319