UCJNU044 Corpus Linguistics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Dr. phil. Veronika Kotůlková
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
Course objectives
This course offers a general and practical introduction to corpus linguistics. It will start by familiarizing students with some basic corpus linguistic principles, such as the notions of target population, corpus balance, representativeness, and concordances. As a second step, we will have a look at some of the present debates concerning the relevance and application of corpus-based findings. Finally, the course will introduce several German language corpora, which are accessible to researchers, teachers and students of German.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to corpus linguistics
    2. History of corpus linguistics
    3. Web as a corpus
    4. Types of corpora
    5. The best known corpora of German language
    6. Linguistic corpora: primary and meta data
    7. Introduction to COSMAS II PC-Clients
    8. Annotated corpora in COSMAS II
    9. Linguistic annotation I: morpho-syntactic annotation
    10. Linguistic annotation II: syntactic annotation
    11. Linguistic annotation III: semantic annotation
    12. Pros and cons of corpus linguistics
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Final project presenting own linguistic corpus-based research
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2018, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022.
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