ABSTRACT
John Sinclair is one of the major figures in world linguistics. His earliest career was spent at the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh but his work is associated most clearly with the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he held the foundation chair in Modern English Language from 1965 until 2000. He is currently co-founder and director of the Tuscan Word Centre in Italy which is known internationally for corpus-based language research and teaching.
