Tiêu đề 55 - Collins Cobuild English Grammar.pdf ✅

About COBUILD When the first COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987, it revolutionized dictionaries for learners. It was the first of a new generation of language reference materials that were based on actual evidence of how English was used, rather than lexicographer intuition. Collins and the University of Birmingham, led by the linguist John Sinclair, developed an electronic corpus in the 1980s, called the Collins Birmingham University International Language Database (COBUILD). This corpus, which for several years was known as the Bank of English®, became the largest collection of English data in the world. COBUILD dictionary editors use the corpus to analyse the way that people really use the language. The Collins corpus now contains 4 billion words taken from websites, newspapers, magazines and books published around the world, and from spoken material from radio, TV and everyday conversations. New data is added to the corpus every month, to help COBUILD editors identify new words, grammatical structures, and meanings from the moment they are first used. All COBUILD language reference books are based on the information our editors find in the Collins corpus. Because the corpus is so large, our editors can look at lots of examples of how people really use the language. The data tells us how the language is used; the function of different structures; which words are used together; and how often these words and structures are used. All of the examples in COBUILD language materials are examples of real English, taken from the corpus. The examples have been carefully chosen to demonstrate typical grammatical patterns, typical vocabulary and typical contexts. COBUILD Grammar is no exception: Collins editors and researchers have been able to use this wealth of information to establish a unique and full description of English grammar, and to track the development of certain grammatical structures over time. The corpus lies at the heart of COBUILD, and you can be confident that COBUILD will show you what you need to know to be able to communicate easily and accurately in English. If you would like to learn more about the Collins corpus, or to sign up for our online corpus service, please go to www.collinslanguage.com/wordbanks.
Third Edition Managing Editor Penny Hands Editorial Consultant Roger Berry Lingnan University, Hong Kong Project Manager Lisa Sutherland Senior Corpus Researcher Kate Wild The Grammar of Academic English University of Glasgow Language Centre Dr Esther Daborn Anneli Williams Louis Harrison Corpus Researchers George Davidson Kate Mohideen Elizabeth Potter Elspeth Summers Laura Wedgeworth The Grammar of Business English Simon Clarke American English Consultant Orin Hargraves For the Publishers Lucy Cooper Kerry Ferguson Elaine Higgleton Computing Support Thomas Callan