WORDS AND PHRASES
John Sinclair
(1991) reprinted from Chapter 5 of Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 67–75.
Sinclair takes the reader through the process of analysing a particular verb to discover (some
of ) the ways in which it is used. It is an excellent example of how corpora can be used for
grammatical/lexical analysis (Sinclair’s final aim being to arrive at grammatically adequate
dictionary definitions).
Sinclair appears to be using the term ‘phrasal verb’ in the more general sense identified in
B7 (
= ‘multi-word verbs’), since he includes ‘set about’ (a prepositional verb in our narrower
sense) under this heading. However, the two main multi-word verbs, ‘set off’ and ‘set in’, are both
phrasal verbs in the narrower sense.
Some terms may be unfamiliar: lemma
= ‘word-family’, and adjunct = ‘adverbial’
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