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Sinclairian

Sinclairian adjective: of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.

Adjective

Sinclairian (comparative more Sinclairian, superlative most Sinclairian)

  1. Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
    • Romer (2008) uses a Sinclairian approach to corpus analysis in order to identify positive and negative evaluations in texts such as book reviews: how can we find out quickly and reliably (and preferably automatically, by computer program) whether a reviewer thinks a book is worth bothering with?2013, Patrick Hanks, Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations, page 404

Forms of Sinclairian

comparativemore Sinclairian
superlativemost Sinclairian

Origin of Sinclairian

From Sinclair + -ian.

Questions about Sinclairian

What does Sinclairian mean?
Sinclairian means of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
What part of speech is Sinclairian?
Sinclairian is an adjective.

Words near Sinclairian in the dictionary

  1. sinciput
  2. sinciputs
  3. sincke
  4. sinckes
  5. Sinclair
  6. Sinclairian
  7. Sinclairtown
  8. sincosite
  9. Sind
  10. Sindabur
  11. Sindall

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