Universidad de Jaén

1. Overview

1.1. Corpus Linguistics: brief historical overview

1.2. Corpora: definitions and main concepts

1.2.1. Representativeness, sampling and size

1.3. Types of corpora

1.3.1. Balanced vs. monitor corpora

1.3.2. Monolingual, bilingual and multilingual corpora

1.3.3. Written, oral and multimodal corpora

1.3.4. Multi-purpose corpora and special-purpose corpora

1.3.5. Raw vs. annotated corpora

1.3.5.1. POS-tagging

1.3.5.2. Parsing

1.3.5.3. Lemmatization

1.3.5.4. Semantic tagging

1.3.5.5. Other types of annotation or tagging

1.4. Summary

1.5. References

 

2. Concordances

2.1. Definition and origins

2.2. Concordances: potential

2.3. How to run concordances

2.4. Summary

2.5. References

 

3. Counting

3.1. Beginning to face the data

3.2. Descriptive statistics

3.3. A basic introduction to normally distributed and non-normally distributed data: parametric and non-parametric tests

3.4. Summary

3.5. References

 

4. Word lists and keyness

4.1. Simple word lists

4.1.1. How to prepare a word list

4.1.2. Alphabetically-sorted lists

4.1.3. Frequency-sorted lists

4.2. Interpreting the information in word lists

4.2.1. Zipf’s law

4.2.2. Frequent words

4.2.3. Mid-frequency words

4.2.4. Infrequent words

4.3. Multi-word lists

4.3.1. How to prepare a n-gram list

4.3.2. Interpreting n-gram lists

4.4. Comparing word lists to find keywords

4.4.1. How to prepare a keyword list

4.4.2. Understanding the output of a keyword list

4.5. Summary

4.6. References

 

5. Keyword Analysis

5.1. Keyness

5.1.1. What is keyness?

5.1.2. Focus corpora and reference corpora

5.1.3. Positive and negative keywords

5.1.4. Key words and word meanings

5.2. Calculating keyness

5.3. Analysing keywords

5.4. Summary

5.5. References

 

6. Collocation

6.1. What is (a) collocation?

6.2. Collocations in corpus linguistics

6.2.1. How to prepare a collocates list

6.2.2. Statistical measures: t-score and Mutual Information (MI)

6.2.3. How close is â€ËÅ“close’? collocation spans

6.2.4. Asymmetrical significance: upward and downward collocation

6.3. Longer collocations: clusters, n-grams, and â€ËÅ“long-distance collocations’

6.3.1. How to prepare a clusters list

6.3.2. Long-distance collocations

6.4. Summary

6.5. References

 

7. Corpus studies of grammar and lexis

7.1. Grammar

7.1.1. Types of grammatical patterns

7.1.1.1. Vocabulary

7.1.1.2. Grammatical co-text

7.1.1.3. Discourse-level factors

7.1.1.4. Context of situation

7.1.2. The idiom principle

7.1.3. Pattern Grammar

7.2. Lexis

7.2.1. Some corpus-based and corpus-driven studies of lexis

7.2.2. Technology and the study of lexis

7.3. Summary

7.4. References

 

8. Corpora and language teaching

8.1. Indirect applications of corpora to language learning and teaching

8.1.1. Learner corpora: compilation criteria and main methodologies used

8.1.2. Examples of the indirect applications of corpora to language learning and teaching

8.2. Direct applications of corpora to language learning and teaching

8.3. Summary

8.4. References

 

9. Corpora in (critical) discourse studies

9.1. Corpora and discourse

9.1.1. Corpora in (linguistic) discourse studies

9.1.2. Corpora in (sociolinguistic) discourse studies

9.2. Methods in corpus-assisted discourse studies

9.3. From text to corpus and back again: a short case study

9.4. Summary

9.5. References

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