English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report (Corpus and Discourse)

Contents
Preface
Contributors
Editor's Preface
Interview with John Sinclair conducted
English Lexical Studies: Report to OSTI on Project C/LP/08
	Acknowledgements
	Steering Committee
	Staff
	Organisation of the Report
INTRODUCTION
	Grammar Versus Lexis
	Span
	Lexical Items
	Loose Ends
SECTION 1: BACKGROUND
	1.1 Definition of Specialized Terms used in the Report
	1.2 Brief History of the Project: Edinburgh
	1.3 Brief History of the Project: Birmingham
	1.4 Possibilities for Future Research
SECTION 2: TEXTS
	2.0 Introduction
	2.1 The Spoken English Text
	2.2 The Brown University Text
	2.3 The Scientific Text
	2.4 Experiments in Obtaining Text from Informants
	2.5 Literary Texts
	2.6 Discussion of the Statistical Characteristics of Texts
SECTION 3: SIGNIFICANT COLLOCATION
	3.0 Definitions
	3.1 Population and Sample
	3.2 Significance at a Span Position and Significance within a Span
	3.3 Significance Tests Used
	3.4 Level of Significance and Minimum Number of Occurrences
	3.5 Test Decisions
	3.6 Span
	3.7 Prediction on the Left and on the Right
	3.8 Point of Maximum Difference
	3.9 Calculation of Expected Values and Variances
	3.10 Methods Used in Section 3.6
SECTION 4: FREQUENT WORDS
	4.0 Introduction
	4.1 An Examination of Some Grammatical Items
	4.2 Semi-Grammatical Items
SECTION 5: COLLOCATIONAL PATTERNS OF SELECTED LEXICAL ITEMS
	5.0 Introduction
	5.1 Selection of Data
	5.2 Production of Collocational Information
	5.3 Analysis of Collocational Information
	5.4 Statistical Considerations
SECTION 6: IDENTIFYING LEXICAL ITEMS
	6.0 Introduction
	6.1 Multiword Items
	6.2 Homographs
	6.3 Paradigms
SECTION 7: DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN TWO TEXTS USING STRENGTH OF COLLOCATION AS A DISCRIMINANT
	7.0 Introduction
	7.1 Texts
	7.2 Test Words
	7.3 Discrimination using Bayes Theorem
	7.4 Choosing the Prior Distribution of f
	7.5 Discussion of the Use of Bayes Formula in Deriving Posterior Odds
	7.6 Choosing the Collocates
	7.7 The Disputed Text
	7.8 Conclusions
APPENDICES: (Edited for this publication)
	Section 1
		Appendix li: Program Descriptions
	Section 2
		Appendix 2i: Words in text with 10 or more occurrences (Rank Order)
		Appendix 2ii: Words in text with 10 or more occurrences (Alphabetical Order)
		Appendix 2iii: Part of first synthetic text
		Appendix 2iv: Significant collocates (second synthetic text)
	Section 4
		Appendix 4i: Collocational tables for grammatical items
		Appendix 4iA: the, a
		Appendix 4iB: and
		Appendix 4iC: of, in, and to
		Appendix 4iD: I, you, it (spoken text only)
		Appendix 4ii: Selection from the available collocation information for semi-grammatical items
	Section 5
		Appendix 5i: Collocations significant with only 2 occurrences
		Appendix 5ii: Collocational patterns for selected lexical items
	Section 6
		Appendix 6i: Concordance of right with minority meanings marked
		Appendix 6ii: Classified occurrences of way
		Appendix 6iii: Collocates significant with come/came
		Appendix 6iv: Classified occurrences of year/years
		Appendix 6iv: Collocates significant with year/years
		Appendix 6v: Classified occurrences of word/words
		Appendix 6v: Collocates significant with word/words
		Appendix 6vi: The "Red Herring" Results
APPENDIX: Sample from the Spoken English Text
REFERENCES
INDEX
	A
	B
	C
	D
	E
	F
	G
	H
	I
	J
	K
	L
	M
	N
	O
	P
	Q
	R
	S
	T
	U
	V
	W
	Y
	Z