SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE)
| DATE | TOPIC | PROJECT (DATE DUE) | HUNSTON | OTHER READINGS | |
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GENERAL METHODOLOGY |
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| T | JAN 6 | Introduction | Survey1, Survey2 | ||
| Th | 8 | Overview of the field | Simple queries -- getting used to corpora |
1-24; 213-16 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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APPLICATIONS |
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| 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 |
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| T | 24 | " " |
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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. |
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| 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 | ||