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<p>from LP</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''John McHardy Sinclair''' (1933-06-14 – 2007-03-13) was a British linguist who took a leading role in developing [[corpus linguistics]] and [[English]]-language corpora.<br /> <br /> ===Life===<br /> <br /> After attending George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Sinclair read English Language and Literature at Edinburgh University, where he was awarded a First Class Masters degree. Following a spell of National Service in the RAF as an Education Officer, he returned to Edinburgh as a research student in 1958 and was soon appointed to a lectureship in the Department of English Language and General Linguistics. <br /> <br /> In 1965 he was elected to the foundation chair of Modern English Language at the University of Birmingham. In 1995 he took partial early retirement, moved to Italy and founded the [[Tuscan Word Centre]], an institution devoted to corpus based language research and teaching. He finally retired in 2000 from the University of Birmingham.<br /> <br /> He died in 2007 in his home in Florence, and was buried at the Cimitero degli Inglesi.<br /> <br /> He was an Honorary Life Member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and a member of the Academia Europaea. John held an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Gothenburg, and Honorary Professorships in the Universities of Jiao Tong, Shanghai and Glasgow.<br /> <br /> ===Contribution===<br /> Sinclair was an early leader in the fields of collocation studies, spoken language research and computational linguistics. He was founder of the ground-breaking COBUILD project in lexical computing which revolutionized lexicography in the 1980s and resulted in a new generation of corpus-driven dictionaries and reference materials for English language learners. <br /> <br /> ===Works===<br /> *Sinclair, John &amp; Coulthard, M. 1975. ''Towards an Analysis of Discourse: The English Used by Teachers and Pupils.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br /> *Sinclair, John. 1991. ''Corpus, concordance, collocation.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br /> <br /> ===Link===<br /> [http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/research/events/sinclair.htm University of Birmingam website]<br /> <br /> [[Category:En]]<br /> [[Category:BIOG|Sinclair, John]]</div>

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