SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE)

DATE TOPIC PROJECT (DATE DUE) HUNSTON OTHER READINGS

GENERAL METHODOLOGY
T JAN 6 Introduction     Survey1, Survey2
Th 8 Overview of the field Simple queries -- getting used to corpora 1-24;
213-16		  
T 13 Methodology     McEnery, Tony and Andrew Wilson (2001) Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution. In Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh UP. 2nd edition. 1-27.
Th 15 Structured  corpora What is available in your area of interest   -- Meyer, Charles (2003) English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge. 142-50. (A)
-- Online overview (David Lee)
T 20 Unstructured corpora
(e.g. Web)		     Kilgarriff, Adam and Gregory Grefenstette (2003) “Web as corpus”. Computational Linguistics 29:1-15
Th 22 Corpus design and construction Web as corpus 25-37 -- Kennedy, Graeme (1998) Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Longman. 60-78.
-- Fair Use Law
T 27       "     "      
Th 29 Annotation Design corpus for your area of interest 79-96  
T FEB 3 Word Lists and Keywords   67-79 WordCruncher
WordSmith
Th 5        
T 10 Concordances  Wordlists / Keywords 38-56  
Th 12      "     "   56-66  
T 17   MONDAY INSTRUCTION    
Th 19 Relational databases  Concordances (1 2)   Davies, Mark (2009) The 385+ Million Word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990-present)". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.  (Via Corpora page)
T 24 Quantitative data    

McEnery, Tony and Andrew Wilson (2001) Quantitative Data.  In Corpus Linguistics. 2nd edition. Edinburgh UP. 2nd edition. 75-101.

APPLICATIONS
Th 26 Lexicography  Prospectus for project 96-109  
T MAR 3      "     "   137-57 Kennedy, Graeme (1998) Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Longman. 91-121. **
Th 5 Grammar Lexicography   Biber, Douglas, et al (2002) The Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman. (Selected pages)
T 10      "     "     Book review
Th 1 2 Register variation Grammar 102-4; 157-169  Biber, Douglas (1993) "The multi-dimensional approach to linguistic analyses of genre variation: an overview of methodology and findings". Computers and the Humanities 26: 331-45.
T 17 Stylistics   109-23, 128-34  
Th 19 Historical Register or stylistic variation    -- Kytö, Merya and Matti Rissanen (1993) “General introduction”. In Early English in the computer age, ed. Matti Rissanen, et al. Mouton de Gruyter. 1-17. OR
-- Davies, Mark (2009) ""Creating Useful Historical Corpora: A Comparison of CORDE, the Corpus del Español, and the Corpus do Português". In Diacronía de las lenguas iberorromances: nuevas perspectivas desde la lingüística de corpus, ed. Andrés Enrique-Arias. Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana
T 24       "     "  

 

   Biber, Douglas (1998) Historical and Stylistic Investigations. In Corpus linguistics: Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge UP. 203-29.
Th 26 Multilingual corpora Historical variation    Lawson, Ann (2001) “Collecting, aligning, and analyzing parallel corpora”. In Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, ed. Mohsen Ghadessy, et al. John Benjamins. 279-310. OR
Borin, Lars (2002) “…and never the twain shall meet?” In Parallel corpora, parallel worlds, ed. Lars Borin. Rodopi. 1-25.
T 31 Teaching   170-197  
Th APR 2      "     " Summary of article 198-213 Articles
T 7 NO CLASS      
Th 9 NO CLASS      
T 14 Presentations of projects      
Fri 17 7:00-10:00 AM (8:30-9:30) FINAL EXAM