UCJANK02 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
Course objectives
The goal of this course is to provide students with the characteristic features of language corpus, reasearch methods and possible use in various language applications. Emphasis is put on the comparison with traditional linguistic approaches and their weaknesses. Recommended literature: Biber D., Conrad S., Reppen R.: Corpus linguistics, Cambridge 1998. Ball , Catherine N Tutorial: Concordance and Corpora. Available at http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html Barlow, M. Corpus Linguistics. Available at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
Syllabus

  • 1. Methods and goals of the corpus-based method
    2. Quantitative and qualitative analysis
    3. Corpora of the English language and tools
    4. Corpus and lexicological analysis
    5. Distribution of lexical units and their senses
    6. Corpus and grammatical analysis
    7. Grammatical categories, and structures and their functions within register distribution
    8. Lexico-grammar and corpus
    9. Lexico-grammatical associations patterns
    10. Corpus and register variations
    11. Multi-dimensional analysis
    12. Corpus and error patterns
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 8 HOD/SEM.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2016.
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