LINGUIST List 10.759

Wed May 19 1999

Qs: The Term "Colligation", Business German

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  1. Dominic Busch, Who introduced the term "colligation"?
  2. April Mackison, Business German

Message 1: Who introduced the term "colligation"?

 Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:22:14 +0100
From: Dominic Busch <buschdtcd.ie>
Subject: Who introduced the term "colligation"?


I am writing on my student dissertation. I am wondering about who was
the first to introduce the term "colligation" being a grammatical
collocation. I thought it must have been done by Firth but I could not
find any evidence for that so far. Even my lecturer could not help, so
I would be glad if anybody could give me a useful hint.

thanks,

Dominic Busch
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Message 2: Business German

 Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:49:35 +0100
From: April Mackison <aprilpixie1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Business German

Dear All

I am new to the Linguist List, and was wondering if anyone knew of any
corpus-based work being done on business/management language in
German. I am particularly interested in the different ways women and
men are portrayed in the language of business and management.

Thank you in advance,

April Mackison
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
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