doi:10.1093/ijl/ecm018 209 SUMMER 2007 EURALEX NEWSLETTER Editor: Paul Bogaards Email:
[email protected] The EURALEX Newsletter This quarterly Newsletter is intended to include not only official announce- Downloaded from ments but also news about EURALEX members, their publications, projects, and (it is hoped) their opinions, and news about other lexicographical organizations. Please try to support this by sending newsletter contributions to Paul Bogaards at the email address above. The deadlines for spring (March), summer (June), autumn (September), and winter (December) issues are ijl.oxfordjournals.org respectively 15 January, 15 April, 15 July, and 15 October annually. The EURALEX Web Site The URL of the EURALEX web site is www.euralex.org at Aston University on November 28, 2010 John Sinclair (1933^2007) John Sinclair, who died of cancer on 13 March 2007 aged 73, was a pioneer in discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, and the founder and chief editor of the Cobuild series of dictionaries, grammars, and aids for foreign learners. He was a corpus linguist par excellence – in fact, he virtually invented the discipline and led the field in developing the corpus-based analysis of collocations. His influence on lexicography, on the study and teaching of language, and on linguistics in general was profound. It is far too early to attempt a balanced assessment of this influence. It may well be that, in years to come, the empiricism of scholars such as Sinclair and Halliday will come to be recognized as the late 20th-century mainstream in linguistics in the English-speaking world – a mainstream that flowed from Saussure through European structuralism – rather than the syntactocentric American school that arrogated to itself the name ‘mainstream’ in the 1970s.