• COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham...
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  • The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions...
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  • In addition to the Oxford and Longman dictionaries, these are: Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary, first published in 1987 Cambridge International...
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  • English. 2015, Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp 129-138 COBUILD (1996) pp 83-86 COBUILD (1996) pp 81–82 Gerund at Wikibooks The dictionary definition...
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  • 22 July 2019. Concerning ergative verbs, see for instance the Collins Cobuild English Grammar (1995:155f.) and Biber et al. (1999:155f.). The term object-deletion...
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    'Scandinavia Archived 27 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine', Collins Cobuild. 'Scandinavia, proper noun', Lexico: Powered by Oxford. 'Scandinavia, geographical...
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  • supervision of Yorick Wilks. In 1983, he was appointed managing editor of COBUILD, and in 1987 he took on the additional role of chief editor of English...
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    increasingly used the Bank of English established by John McHardy Sinclair at COBUILD to provide typical citations rather than examples composed by the lexicographer...
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  • Bank of English (BoE) is a representative subset of the 4.5 billion words COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. These are mainly British in origin...
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    first published in 1978. Collins Cobuild English Dictionary, first published in 1987 and now published as Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary....
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