John Sinclair has died

March 14, 2007
Filed under: en, linguistics, obituary 

John Sinclair, one of the founders of corpus linguistics, and driving force behind the COBUILD dictionaries, died yesterday in his home in Tuscany. He will be buried in the English Cemetery in Florence.

I spent a bit of time with him six months ago, working on a secret dictionary project, and he was definitely still full of ideas then. It’s odd to know that he will now never see this project completed.

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4 Responses to “John Sinclair has died”

  1. Sebastian on March 15th, 2007 5:56

    Sikke en trist nyhed; men det lyder da rigtig interessant – glæder mig til at høre mere om den.

  2. Thomas on March 15th, 2007 10:48

    Der jo bare det lille problem, at det er et hemmeligt projekt…

  3. Sebastian on March 16th, 2007 1:30

    det holder da vel op med at være hemmeligt en eller anden dag, når det er blevet udgivet ikke??? Så kan jeg glæde mig så længe M;.)

  4. Thomas on March 16th, 2007 9:15

    Det er ikke alle projekter, der bliver til noget. :-(

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