Abstract
This book, which arises from what must have been a very dynamic conference at Louvain in 20051, is devoted to the argument that meaningful textual discourse does not just contain words as individual vocabulary items, but typically groups them into larger and more complex units within clauses and sentences. The study of such multi-word combinations has had quite an impetus recently, under such headings as ‘phrases’, ‘collocations’, ‘idioms’, ‘figurative compounds’, ‘metaphorical expressions’ and ‘terminological formulae’ as well as the now usual and more general term ‘phraseology’. The book is dedicated to the memory of John Sinclair who is known not only as the chief instigator of the COBUILD dictionary project, but also as an advocate of phraseological studies within neo-Firthian linguistics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics.2 The book starts with a preface by Sinclair in which he outlines the need for phraseology and some of the reasons for its neglect, and it ends with a brief envoi on its lasting significance.
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