A tale of many Cs

[xujiajin]

Corpus
Corpora
Collocation
Concordance
Concordancing
Collection of texts/data
Computational
Computerized
Context
Concordancer


C u later, my dear C friends.

[xiaoz]

A bright idea! Love it.

[Haiyang]

I love that too. Very clever!

[xujiajin]

Actually, Sinclair (1991) book title Corpus, Collocation, Concordance has already got the gist of corpus studies based on the current research in the field.

[buddyk]

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[xiaoz]

The title of Sinclair's (1991) book should be "Corpus - Concordance- Collocation", in the order of how collocations are extracted. Not sure why he put collocation in front of concordance.

Also in my recent personal communications with Sinclair, he appears to have changed his ideas over time on some points, especially those related to corpus design. The book reflected what people thought of corpora at that time. But now much has changed. Is there a need to stick to something produced 15 years ago?

[xujiajin]

我的本意当然不是说Sinclair（1991）的书的成就如何重大。我是想说至今corpus研究还在collocation, concordance上转来转去。

[xujiajin]

另外，Sinclair3个单词的顺序安排主要可能还是从音节上考虑的。