John McHardy Sinclair
British lexicographer and corpus linguist
About John McHardy Sinclair
Lived 1933 – 2007 (aged 73). John McHardy Sinclair was a British linguist, lexicographer, philologist and scholar of English.
Key publications John McHardy Sinclair and Malcolm Coulthard. Towards an Analysis of Discourse: The English Used by Teachers and Pupils. Oxford University Press. 1975.
John McHardy Sinclair and David Brazil. Teacher Talk. Oxford University Press. 1982.
John McHardy Sinclair. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford University Press. 1991.
John McHardy Sinclair. Reading Concordances: An Introduction. Pearson/Longman. 2003.
John McHardy Sinclair. Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse. Routledge. 2004.
John McHardy Sinclair. How to use Corpora in Language Teaching. John Benjamins Publishing. 2004.
John McHardy Sinclair and Anna Mauranen Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating Speech and Writing. John Benjamins Publishing. 2006.
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Who was John McHardy Sinclair?
British lexicographer and corpus linguist
When was John McHardy Sinclair born?
John McHardy Sinclair was born on 14 June 1933 in Edinburgh.
When did John McHardy Sinclair die?
John McHardy Sinclair died on 13 March 2007 in Florence.
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John McHardy Sinclair was a linguist, lexicographer, philologist and scholar of English.
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John McHardy Sinclair was British.
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