Overview
Aims
- to familiarise students with the use of corpora in linguistic research
-to use concordancing programmes and tools
- to compile and annotate corpora
Course contents
C1. Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. The corpus-based approach
C2 Why use a corpus. Annotation and mark-up
Types of corpora: according to genre, according to size
C3. Corpus analysis and linguistic theory
C4. Corpus linguistics and lexicography: Introduction, Corpora as a source for lexicography: using data as evidence. Corpus linguistic tools for lexicography
C5 Corpus compilation. Collection strategies and design decisions
C6 Corpus development and corpus annotation
C7 Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics
C8 Corpora and language learning research
C 9 Procedures uses in corpus linguistics: word lists and concordancing programmes
C 10 Contrastive corpus studies
C11 Learning corpora. Developing corpus-based teaching materials
C12 Sense and semantic tagging
C13 Working with frequency lists
C 14 Frequency data, concordances and collocations
Learning outcomes
-to familiarise students with the use of corpora in linguistic research. Students will learn how to use different concordancing programmes, will explore the functionalities of concordancing programmes
Assessment
Project-based evaluation + writing a research paper in the field of linguistics which uses corpus linguistics as a method