Frontmatter -- I John McH. Sinclair and his contribution to linguistics -- Preface -- Contents -- A tribute to John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933-13 March 2007) -- Corpus, lexis, discourse: a tribute to John Sinclair -- II The concept of collocation: theoretical and pedagogical aspects -- Choosing sandy beaches - collocations, probabemes and the idiom principle -- Sinclair revisited: beyond idiom and open choice -- Accessing second-order collocation through lexical co-occurrence networks -- From phraseology to pedagogy: challenges and prospects -- Chunks and the effective learner - a few remarks concerning foreign language teaching and lexicography -- Exploring the phraseology of ESL and EFL varieties -- III Variation and change -- Wnting the history of spoken standard English in the twentieth century -- Prefabs in spoken English -- Observations on the phraseology of academic writing: local patterns - local meanings? -- Collocational behaviour of different types of text -- IV Computational aspects -- Corpus linguistics, generative grammar and database semantics -- Chunk parsing in corpora -- German noun+verb collocations in the sentence context: morphosyntactic properties contributing to idiomaticity -- Author index -- Subject index