Sinclairian

English

Etymology

Sinclair +‎ -ian

Adjective

Sinclairian (comparative more Sinclairian, superlative most Sinclairian)

  1. Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
    • 2013, Patrick Hanks, Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations, page 404:
      Romer (2008) uses a Sinclairian approach to corpus analysis in order to identify positive and negative evaluations in texts such as book reviews: how can we find out quickly and reliably (and preferably automatically, by computer program) whether a reviewer thinks a book is worth bothering with?
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