John McHardy Sinclair

John McHardy Sinclair (* 14. June 1933 in Scotland ; † 13. March 2007 ) was a Scottish linguists ( Linguist ).

Life

When the Collins publishing house founded the Collins Birmingham University International Language Database (COBUILD) project together with the University of Birmingham in 1980 , Sinclair became their most important collaborator.

After his retirement , Sinclair went to Italy and founded the Tuscan Word Center there with his wife Elena Tognini-Bonelli .

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• Towards the analysis of discourse . OUP, London 1975, ISBN 0-19-436011-3 .
  • German: Analysis of the language of instruction. Approaches to a discourse analysis; illustrated by the language behavior of English teachers and students . Verlag Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 3-494-00909-0 .
• Corpus, Concordance, Collocation OUP, London 1991, ISBN 0-19-437144-1 .
• Trust the text. Language, corpus and discourse . Routledge, London 2004, ISBN 0-415-31767-3 .

as editor

• Cobuild English Language Dictionary . Collins, London 1988, ISBN 0-00-370023-2 .

literature

• Thomas Herbst (Ed.): The phraseological view of language. A tribute to John Sinclair . DeGruyter Mouton, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025688-8 .
• Michael Hoey (Ed.): Data, Description, Discourse. Papers on the English language in honor of John McH Sinclair on his 60th birthday . HarperCollins, London 1993, ISBN 0-00-370947-7 .
• Rosamund Moon: Words, grammar, text. Revisiting the work of John Sinclair (Benjamin Current Topics; Vol. 18). John Benjamin Books, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-272-2248-0 .

Web links

• Mike Hoey: John Sinclair. Brilliant language scholar and deviser of the "idiom principle" . In: The Guardian, May 3, 2007.
• The Tuscan Word Center